User:Ial21/Evaluate an Article

Chosen Article
The Snowy Day

Reason For This Article
I have chosen to evaluate this article as I found it relevant to the class in multiple ways. For one it is a classic children's picture book that I remember reading when I was little, as well as it is relevant to our talks in class about race in children's books. This book lends itself to McNair's idea of a melting pot. The only real distinction of race in this book is in the illustrations, without those a reader would not nesicarily be able to tell that the main character is of a particular race.

Article Evaluation
This article has a good lead section. It clearly lays out what is going to be covered in the rest of the article and gives snippets of details. Additionally, the lead section gives just enough that if someone were looking for a very brief overview they would get enough from just reading that one section. The article has good relevant content. There is a summary, background, genre, analysis, reception, awards, and adaptations. This is a wide variety of topics portioning to the one book, answering just about any question one could have on the book. The only section that could be trimmed down a bit to be more relevant is the background section. The first part mainly focuses on Keats himself, which seems as though it would belong in a separate article just about the author. The article seems quite neutral, for the most part there are not really opportunities for opinions to be interjected, except in the reception portion. This portion in drawn from multiple sources with different perspectives. One issue here though is that it is missing a lot of citations in this sections which can take away from the neutrality, as it is not as clear that these are not just the opinions of the person who added them to the article. In terms of citations this article is faltering. There are a lot of instances where there are notes of citations needed, as well as citations that no longer exist. Clicking on some of the links will lead to pages that are no longer available. This negates the citation, as there is no way to go back and trace where the information came from, or the accuracy of it. This article defiantly needs to be fact checked again, with all the missing and no longer working citations replaced. This article is easy to read and quite straight forward. There are not unnecessarily complicated sentences, or much excess information to distract from the points. There is only one instance of images used. This is in the side bar with the books information, that includes an image of the cover. Seeing as though the illustrations are a large part of this book, in particular the style and the depiction of the main character's race. The article could benefit form visual reference to this, as it could give the reader a better idea of what the art style referenced looks like. Looking through the talk page it seems as though this page was written by a student for a class project, with most all of it being done by one person. Additionally, some of the aforementioned qualms seem to be purposeful based on the contents of the talk page, in particular the part about the history of the Author. The talk page indicated that this was something the editor specifically wanted to add to the page to provide more context. Overall, this article seems to be a well rounded article, but defiantly has room for improvement. The citations need a lot of work, which would then crate an overall stronger article. It does not seem that there would be much to add content wise, as it is a relatively simple book that that is easily summarized. There is solid background information and what has come of the book since its original publication.