User:Jed5z/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Keycap

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Admittedly, I happen to know quite a bit about mechanical keyboards and key caps. Building keyboards has been a hobby of mine in the past, so I figured it would be easy to spot possible inconsistencies in the article. Upon reading the article, it seemed pretty "bare-bones," but it covered many of the basics of the topic.

Evaluate the article

 * The lead section provides a detailed, brief overview on the subject, enough to grasp the meaning and significance of the topic. I see one possible edit, however. The last sentence states a fact about the early history of key caps, but the fact is not detailed in the actual history subsection of the article, and no citation is given for the fact.
 * The content of the article was appropriate, but some reorganization and editing could be done to clean up the article. For example, in the "Modern keycaps" subsection, it seemed the article mostly focused on custom, aftermarket key cap sets, rather than a broader description of modern key caps. The last paragraph of the section also had a statement which could be interpreted as opinion. Instead of discussing "modern preference," the article could discuss the difference in key cap sculpting and how wide-spread each form factor is, in order to maintain neutral tone.
 * The references for the article were extremely poor. Most of the sources could be tracked to a single Reddit community wiki. The majority of the others were product pages from online stores for mechanical keyboard parts. There was one source from a blog post, and one source was a poorly cropped smartphone screenshot of an email about a key cap set order.
 * The media was helpful in explaining the aesthetics and construction of particular types of key caps.
 * The talk page was mostly barren, and it was obvious there were very few contributors to this article.
 * Overall, the article's strengths lie in giving an overview on many types of keyboard key caps, but it fails to give reliable, trustworthy sources on the subject. It is obvious in the tone and focus of the article that the contributors come from a custom, mechanical keyboard background, and much could be done to the article to give it a more broad, encyclopedic view of the subject rather than of a niche subset of the subject.