User:Inknalu/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
American literature (academic discipline)

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 to evaluate because I thought it would be an interesting topic to read about. This article matters because it informs everyone about the history of American Literature as an academic discipline. I thought the article at first glance was a bit short, but I still wanted to read it.

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.)

The article starts off by defining what American literature as an academic discipline is. The lead does not provide a brief description of the main topics in the article. The content provided is relevant. Most of the sources do not seem to be outdated. The article does a great job of remaining neutral and no bias appears to be present. The sources used do not appear to have biased information, either. There are not many conversations going on in the Talk page of this article. One conversation there described the article as well written. The other conversation was questioning where the sources were for uncited sentences at the end of a paragraph. The article is rated as C-Class and has been marked as a Mid-importance project.