User:James8854clerk/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Bohr compactification

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 have chosen this article because I came across it some time ago while working on my research. None of the sources in the literature explain it very well, and my advisor said that he doesn't understand the concept very well, and it was somewhat necessary for my project. The Wikipedia page leaves something to be desired; there is not enough context given and not enough sources given to help lead to further investigation.

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.)

Everything that is included in the article is relevant to the topic. The information is not out of date per se, the math is all still correct, although looking at the talk page it seems as though no one has really worked on this page in depth in 15 years. The article could certainly use more background context, and how this mathematical idea connects to other branches of math and physics. The tone of the article is neutral, although it is tonally more like a textbook than an Encyclopedia. The definitions it gives are good, but currently the article is almost all definition. While the article does have citations and and the links work, the citations overall are a bit of a mess. There are a few sources given that talk about the topic but don't correspond to any in line citations, and two of these sources link to the same paper. The in line citations that are given all correspond to the same encyclopedia. Most of the conversation around this article dates all the way back to 2004, and the last time someone posted on the talk page was in 2008. The article is not rated and not part of any WikiProjects (though it seems like it probably should be part of the math WikiProject). Most of the discussion on the talk page is people talking about how they are confused about the topic.