User:Hmkruse/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
String Quartets, Op. 33 (Haydn)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was assigned to evaluate. At first glance, the article seems to have a good foundation with an equal base level of information on each of the six quartets, but with more in-depth descriptions only for selected parts of the article rather than an equal amount of information for each section.

Evaluate the article
The first sentence of the lead is well-written, providing a brief description of the topic. The rest of the information in the lead is relevant, however it is not discussed any further in the article, nor does it mention what is actually discussed in the article. There is no citation for the claim that these Op. 33 quartets were favorites of Mozart. Otherwise, the lead is concise and clearly written.

The content of the article is relevant and provides an adequate base-level of information in each section. However, the sections on quartets No. 2 and No. 5 have a lot more additional information, with the rest of the sections left relatively bare. Additionally, there could be a section expanding on the history and context provided in the lead.

The article seems very neutral. It does not seem to be pushing any agenda or bias.

There are a few uncited statements (such as the one mentioned in the lead, as well as some descriptions and analysis of the music). The sources referenced seem to be reliable (most are written by musicologists and music historians). The authors are not very diverse, though this might be due to a lack of material available on this subject from historically marginalized individuals. One of the external links doesn't work.

The article is fairly well-written, though some sentences are a bit long and occasionally are not as clear as they could be. There are no glaring grammatical or spelling errors. The article is organized in a way that makes sense.

The images of the score provided are helpful and adhere to copyright regulations. It would be slightly more visually appealing to align each image of the score on the left, so visually they all start in the same place.

This article is part of the WikiProject Classical music. In the talk page for this article, one of the issues discussed was in expanding the original article to include all of the Op. 33 quartets. In this discussion, the editor notes that it would be a good idea to cut back a bit of the information provided for No. 2 and expand on the rest, which is exactly what I noticed in the article itself. Another issue discussed is the accuracy of some statements made for quartet No. 2 and the relevance/redundancy of them in the first place.

Overall this is an adequate article. It provides a bit of context for the Op. 33 quartets and gives some brief information about each one (as well as detailed explanations in a couple sections). It could be improved by going further in depth in some of the bare sections to provide a more well-rounded review of the quartets; in this sense, it is slightly underdeveloped.