User:Immcarle179/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Second Temple of Hera (Paestum)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I visited this temple once and it was such an amazing and unique experience. This article is only a stub aritcle and is underdeveloped compared to what I think this topic deserves. I want to evaluate this article to point out a few things that could be added/improved.

Evaluate the article
Lead

The lead section for this article is very short. It does contain some important information like dates built and location which I think is a good tarting sentence. However, it does not contain a brief summary of the following sections or highlight the most interesting details about the topic.

Content

The content for this article is largely clumped into one section titled "description". While this does touch on some of the main features of the temple (the design, its former use, and its importance as a world heritage site) I think it would be far more interesting to divided this into more sections that can go into more detail on each of these topics. There is certaintly a lot more research on the architectural design of the building as well as information about potential methods of building that could be included. Additionally, I think the use of the temple as a current tourist destination is missing from the article.

Tone and Balence

Overall I think the tone is professional and not biased toward any particular view

Organization and writing quality.

I think the writing quality of this article is fairly good. In the content section of this evaluation I give some suggestions about breaking up content into more sections to improve organization. I think this would be most helpful if more content were added first, as there is really too little information currently here to allow for clear organization.

Images and Media

The images for this article are quire good and include decent descriptions as well as citations in the captions. They are placed in a section called gallery which i think is effective for displaying them. More of course could be included, but the selection of photographs and drawings creates a nice impression.

References

Only one source is included for this article—and it seems to be a tourist site article (with considerable detail but still not academic/reliable). There are no in text citations so I assume all material came from this one site. This temple is a fairly important architectural site and I think there should be more reliable content out there regarding this site that could be utilized in this article.

Talk page

This talk page looks inactive and has no posts. However, it does show that this page is included in some wikiProject groups.

Overall Thoughts

This article is a stub article and is underdeveloped in my opinion. The images included were a strength of the article, and I also think the short description did a decent job picking out the most important information to mention. This article could be improved by more content on the architecture of the building, and its importance as a historical site (the best preserved greek temple outside of Athens).