User:JessicaVDH/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Forensic data analysis

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.)

This is a newer field of forensics that is not well understood by a large portion of society. I chose this article specifically because of the short length of the article and lack of references relating to the topic.

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.)

The lead section does not mention any of the sections seen further in the article and is almost too concise, not giving the reader much information at all. In terms of content, the content was all related to the topic at hand, however it lacks detail and talks only about methodology, no information on the background of the science or results of this type of analysis. The text itself is fairly unbiased, but also is confusing to read due to the misuse of words and poor sentence structure. This article features no in-text citations, so I do not know where any of the information is coming from and there are only 2 references at the bottom of the article that are not referenced in the text of the article. Overall, this article is not very detailed and gives little to no information on how forensic data analysis actually works.