User:Hss86/Evaluate a Wikipedia article

Which article are you evaluating?
Arabic - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose Arabic as the article that I will be reviewing primarily because it relates to the linguistics course I am taking, and I am interested in the language itself. The language Arabic is important because it is the most common used language in the middle east, and furthering the knowledge of the language will impact millions of lives. Thus the article is important too. My preliminary thoughts of the article was that it looks well structured and the resources seem valid. There are also lots of links to describe important terms in the article which would make it easy for the readers to understand more about the topic.

Evaluate the article
The Wikipedia page include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic, all while including a brief description of the article's major sections it also does not include information that is not present in the article, and the lead is concise. The article's content relevant to the topic as it describes all the major aspects of the language, such as its history, dialect, influence, alphabet, phonology, grammar, writing system, and it influence on literature. The content presented is pretty recent, the last edit being in 2018 in February. All the content presented is relevant to the subject, and the Wikipedia page does not lack in any aspect regarding the quality of the information. In addition the article addresses topics related to underrepresented populations such as the representation of different dialect groups, Koiné, and the representation of Arabic in Islam. The article represents the Arabic language from a neutral point of view by portraying different view of and perspective of the subject. There are no present bias, under or overrepresentation of any minority or majority occurring, and the article is stating facts, no persuasion is occurring. The fact all appear from recent and reliable sources such as articles from Ethnologue, Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics, and The Muqaddimah : an introduction to history. The sources are all very relevant to the topic and gathers information from different sources to cover all the aspects included in the Wikipedia article. The best and most reliable sources are included in the article. The Wikipedia page presents information from history of Arabic phonology to studies in Islamic history and civilization. The links work and open to the sources referenced in the article. The article lacks grammatical and spelling errors and is reflects the major points of the topic, such as when the article separates the history of the Arabic language in to sections for better understanding for the readers. The images are well-captioned and adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations, in addition they are placed appealingly. The talk site contains conversations about Arabic for example the corrections of classical history of Arabic, and conversations about correcting Arabic vernacular. The article is classified as a C-class, it is well developed but has some shortcomings, that being the lack of an in depth analysis of influence on other languages and the grammar of the language. The Arabic language has a very complicated and structured grammar system, the Wikipedia page could use more analysis in the grammar of Arabic. Its status as a foreign language and the history of numerals is also lacking in information. The overall structure of the Wikipedia page is good, the links to other documents regarding Arabic functions well but the completeness of the information present is lacking in some aspects, the ones I mentioned above. The article can be improved with more analysis and research of the shortcoming of the article. Grammar is an important subject in the Arabic language nd one misplaced word or letter could distort the whole sentences definition.