User:Isobel.w18/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Jesuit Relations

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I've chosen to evaluate this article because I'm very interested in editing the article for my final Wikipedia project, and I recognize that the article itself is quite short relative to the length and significance of these documents.

Evaluate the article
I feel as though the lead section does a good job of concisely introducing the piece, because it explains the purpose of the documents, the time period, and the overall methodology.

Some content gaps I immediately identified are the lack of specific examples found within the Relations themselves. Additionally, upon reading the article, there is a heavy emphasis on the publication of these documents, and less on the audience as well as the writers.

As for tone and balance, the article definitely takes a slightly unfavorable view of these documents, describing how they are less likely to be accurate than other ethnographic sources.

There are some grammatical errors and places where it is difficult to fully understand the meaning of the writing. The organization makes a lot of sense, however, it is a short enough article that it is easy to find content within it.

There is a fairly substantial bibliography and some good secondary sources, however, not all the necessary footnotes are included.

The image included does enhance overall understanding of the topic, but there is a grammatical error in the caption. The image is presented in a visually appealing way.