User:Hygiea10/Evaluate an Article

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Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because the mathematicians and astronomers who lived during the time of the Islamic empire did a lot of interesting work in the development of science (natural philosophy), and their work is often underrepresented and not as well known as the work of later western European scientists. My preliminary impression is that the article covers a person (ibn Ṭāriq) who may have had interesting work and contributions, but the amount of information in the article is very limited and does not include much detail.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

This article is a start class article, and as a result, the lead section consists only of a single sentence stating who ibn Ṭāriq was and where he lived. The lead is concise for the information in the article, which is brief. There is no overview of the sections of the article (only one section exists).

The article's content is relevant to the topic, but is mostly limited to a list of works attributed to ibn Ṭāriq. The content contains almost no information on ibn Ṭāriq's life or who he was influenced by, as well as very little information on the content of his works. The content may not be up to date with any new research related to ibn Ṭāriq, since most of the cited references in the article were published prior to 1988, with the exception on an encyclopedia entry from a 2007 source. Additionally, this article covers a person who lived in and worked during the period of the Islamic Empire, which may have historically received less consideration and emphasis (by European historians) than historical science figures in Western Europe.

The article maintains a neutral tone and does not appear to have any significant bias, although there is little content in the article for significant bias to become apparent.

The sources for this article appear to be reliable and peer-reviewed, although many of them are antiquated. Additionally, the article is well written with few to no grammatical errors.

The article includes no images or media, which could be improved upon.

The talk page includes some discussion of the source and precise details of the planetary diameter calculations in works attributed to ibn Ṭāriq. The discussions on the talk page prior to today (from students in this class) appear to be from 2010, indicating that the article has not received a lot of attention for quite a while. The article is part of several WikiProjects (Mathematics, Iran, History of Science, and Astronomy, to name a few) and has been given a low (but not bottom) importance level in most of these WikiProjects.

In general, this article is a good example of a Start-Class article that covers a person of moderate significance who is relatively obscure and has a lot of room for additional content to be added. The content in the article appears to be based off of reliable sources and relatively unbiased, but has a lot of room for improvement in covering more of ibn Ṭāriq's work and influence and (if they are available) personal life details. The article is not well developed since it is a Start-Class article and could benefit from additional content, more recent sources, and, when appropriate, images or media that complement the discussion of ibn Ṭāriq and his work.