User:Jmares3218/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Niccolò Paganini

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because i really like Paganini and his showmanship for technical prowess.

Evaluate the article
Lead section

- the article for Paganini leads off with a clear introduction and is followed by an intro sentence that describes his impact on music today.

- After conducting a thorough evaluation, i have concluded that the article’s lead does not provide a Description of the articles major sections.

- No, the lead does not include information that is not in the major sections of the article.

- the lead is short and concise which gives the reader a good understanding of the content to come

Content

- the article content is completely relevant to the topic as it describes Paganinis life and his accomplishments that led to his musical impact

- i believe the content is up to date as Paganini died a very long time ago and his legacy has not changed much since his death.

- i believe there is some content that is missing, there is no section that describes paganini as someone who was deeply troubled with flaws in his life since birth

- this article does not address historically underrepresented populations as it is about Paganini and he was a white man who faced little predjudice in his days.

Tone and balance

-i believe the article is neutral as there are no spots that take jabs at Paganini’s life and there is no spots that treat him as a hero so i would say that the article is well balanced.

- i belief there are no sections that take a heavy bias against or towards Paganini since most of the information on here was known for hundreds of years and has remained untouched since then

- some view points that are underrepresented are that of his teacher, in this article it does not explain much about his lesson teachers feelings towards him and i wish it could go into more details about this topic.

-minority viewpoints are not described that much. However i believe some minorities that are not represented are those of women and their viewpoints towards Paganini.

- i believe th article praises Paganinis a lot and i believe that it needs to focus on the bad side of him. For example, there is not much information as to how Paganini was a womanizer or a failed entrepreneur that i would like to learn about.

Sources and Refrences

- all of the sources are backed up by a scholarly article and are also cited at the bibliography at the end of the article.

- the sources are thorough because they are reliable articles from scholarly sources which contain more than enough information to write a wiki article about paganini

- most of the sources are not current but it is in my belief that the sources do not have to be current because Paganini lived in the 19th century and most of the sources are form the 1980’s which seem credible given the time frame that it was written in

-the article does not employ a variety of authors and it seems like most of the authors are European which does not diversify its bibliography

- i believe there are better articles over Paganini in the JSTOR as most of the articles on there are peer reviewed and they seem really reliable.

-the links in the article work

Organization and writing quality

-the article is clearly written well and there are no spelling errors. Additionally most of the content is concise and does not include detrimental parts that hinder articles abilities to be read

- the article seems to have been thoroughly reviewed with little grammatical and spelling errors

-yes, the article is broken down into many parts that reflect the major points in the topics

Images and media

-the article includes images that help the reader get an understanding of what Paganini looked like and some of his performances.

- all images are well captioned

-all images adhere to the copyright claims

-all images are laced out in a visually appealing way

Talk page discussion

- some conversations include the fact that Paganini never actually sold his soul to the devil it was just a false hoax

-the article is a 8.5 as it provides good concise information and their respective refrences

-the way Wikipedia talks about this era is pretty similar to the materials we learned in class

Overall impression

-the article seems like a reliable source about the information over Paganini’s life and works as the information on display is accurate and true

- the article does a good job of describing the major points and explaining their developement

- the article can be better by expounding on the information a little bit. Some of the context is too little.

-the article can be improved by adding more information on his legacy

-the article seems to be about 95% complete