User:IKE314159/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article to evaluate because it is the article that I have been working on and it is also in need of work.

Evaluate the article
To start off, the lead section of the current article is strong, brief, and gets the message across. I think that this is the best part of the article and the one spot where nothing needed to be cited. The article writer did not cite anything else in their body of the page so this part seems to be their strongest.

The content of the article seems to be strong and relevant. Now that we have done research on the topic I can see that a lot of the information in the article is accurate. However, like I said above the gaps begin with the fact that the person who wrote the article did not cite anything when they were writing the article. An unexperienced viewer would likely be unsure if they could trust this article as a good source of information because of its lack of citations.

I think that the author does a very good job of being a neutral voice when conveying the information in the article. The words that are used do not give the impression that someone wrote the article but instead that the article is conveying information unbiasedly. I think that the viewpoints of the article are also well represented without a heavy weight on one or two viewpoints and lighter on others. Overall, the tone and organization of the article is good and well put together.

Once again, without sounding too redundant. The author did not include any sources whatsoever so this section is negligible.

The images used are good and the placement of the objects as its own section is clever and we used this technique in our own article. The photos are good quality. It is possible that the author could've used more detailed photos for the objects. Maybe ones that were not zoomed in images from the original fresco but instead photos of the "original" objects such as the horses on the San Marco Basilica.

Throughout this evaluation I have shown how much of the content of the article is good and strong in organization and tone. But, the main problem that essentially makes this article a scrap would be the lack of citations. The citations on a wikipedia article are arguably the most important part of the article considering they are what gives the credibility to the article itself. So, this article, while very good, needs to be changed entirely.