User:Jenniferortiz597/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Galerie des Batailles

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I was looking at architectural buildings and I seen the Palace of Versailles. Inside the palace is a huge gallery which took the place of what used to be apartments for French royalty.

Evaluate the article
The article starts by clearly saying what the Gallery of Battles is. It continues with a brief description of the Gallery of Battles including location and size. It is not over detailed.

The article then gives a history of the Gallery of Battles, stating how it became and it's design. In this part of the article it explains that the gallery replaces apartments that were occupied by various royal family members and lists them. The article could have done without this because it is just extra information about the apartments not the gallery itself. On the other hand, it must then indicate that the gallery in place is a huge deal because it replaces the homes of these figures especially for two centuries. The article does a good job of describing the design of the gallery and the contents of the gallery. It includes a numbered list of all the art displayed along with a small description, each number corresponds to a floor plan that it easy to read. At the end it adds that the gallery has taken damage before. There is not much missing information.

The article is neutral and not really speaking on a position and it is intending to inform.

The list of artworks have links to the title, topic and artist of each one. These links lead to other Wikipedia articles. The reference links provided one leads you to a website in French, while the other leads you to video that has been taken down. I can tell the content is related to the source. There are other websites to pull information from as well. One of the sources is a blog. The sources to important terms were relevant to the content. The sources of the individual artworks were useful and did back up the content.

Organization is good. It is broken down in main points that are cohesive as well. It has an introduction, a history, a list of the artwork displayed and damage.

The article only provides two images. The first is a painting of the opening of the gallery by François-Joseph Heim. The second image is a picture of the ceiling in the central part of the gallery. They are both well-captioned. Both images are at the beginning of the article. The some of the pieces on the list of artworks also have small pictures of them. They were added in by others. They are really small and need to be clicked on to be seen clearly.

On the talk page there are no conversations, just one person added an archival link to an external link. The article is a part of two WikiProjects.

The overall article is very straightforward and does not distract from the topic. The article gave useful information and one of the strong points was the description of the design created by the architects. Another strong point was the easy to read floor plan that correspond with the list provided. The article provided good information although it could have used different references.