User:JC847966/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
NOWKR article, NOWKR.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article because it relates to my major, and I am interested in political activism. Being a philosophy major, one may wonder how this article fits with philosophy, but the article explains the entire philosophy of the group, NOWKR, a group I was not familiar with before. I also chose this article because it discusses leftist ideology, an ideology I subscribe to, as being a proud liberal American. This article provided explains the group, NOWKR, an Austrian extreme leftist organization that fought against the right wing majority in Austria at the start of 2008. I wanted to focus on a topic that I did not know anything about previously, that also fit with my major, that I had interest in and this seemed to be the perfect article.

Evaluate the article
Upon first reading the introduction, I found a few grammatical errors that rendered some sentences completely incoherent. Without the errors the introduction is captivating, and filled with important details that you should know right away, but the grammatical errors take away from this. Additionally, there is information that the author does not provide that he assumes you have background knowledge of. I had no background knowledge of what "a ball" meant in the introductory and I think it throws the reader off when introduced so suddenly. I think the lead is concise and informative, I would adjust the two first sentences and call this a perfect lead.

As for the content of the article, it is all relevant information but I would have liked to see an additional article about what is so bad about the "WKR Ball" and what a typical ball would look like. Therefore, the article focuses on the foundation of the group, but not on the groups adversary, which is a huge part in understanding the group as a whole. After reading the article, I can say I have a bare minimum understanding of the group, but not of its practices, policies, or collisions with police that are important. I had to do outside research to determine the structure of this liberal organization, and why it disbanded. I find this article lacking key information such as the violence the group caused that led police to find them a serious threat. Additionally, I do not believe this article deals with Wikipedia's equity gaps, as I would not consider NOWKR an underrepresented group, but rather a quickly formed organization with one purpose, which once achieved, the group dissolves.

Aside from the few early grammatical errors, the article is well organized, concise, informative and direct. It is a well written article, but I would have liked more details and explanations, being someone not familiar with Austrian politics. The way this article is written, you need some background information to understand the majority of the article. This does not seem like a problem however, because a person who would be searching for the NOWKR organization must have some understanding of at least where the group originated.

The article does contain a few pictures that give the reader a sense of the atmosphere of group and the groups battle, but with such a fiery topic, I believe there were pictures that could have better captured the intensity and violence of the situation. The photos feel generic, if you were to look at the pictures with no context, it would be very difficult to understand what the photos show. The pictures look like any other protest.

Overall, I find this article to be a good place to start research on NOWKR, but you will need to look elsewhere to get a more thorough article. This articles strength is conciseness, but it sacrifices needed details and feels incomplete.