User:Jnn019/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cross-cultural communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I was interested in what the article contained about culture and communication. It matters to me because I can understand the barrier that can be created between cultures and how it can affect how we communicate. I was immediately drawn to the warning sign at the beginning of the article which created reservations on how the author sourced and explained this set of material.

Evaluate the article
The article's content is relevant to the topic. However the lead does not discuss in any great detail what this article will contain except a definition of what constitutes cross-cultural communication. The view points of other countries are underrepresented in this article as most of the examples and ideas are from the viewpoint of the United States. I believe not having representation from other perspectives could make this a weak article. This article is written in a neutral tone. There were not any images used in this article. There was a section towards the end that discusses aspects and the author does not give credit to their explanation. There is a portion that the author specifically refers to an anthropologist by name, yet does not cite or quote anything following the reference. The talk page indicates this article was written as an assignment for educational purposes. This creates a better idea of why there are many different issues with the article that were addressed in the talk page, but then never attempted at a correction. This article received a rating of "B-class". The strength of the article is that it covers many different aspects of cross-cultural communication and that could help someone understand the idea better. It is my opinion that as it is a class project, this student tried their best to complete the article in the amount of time given. However I believe it could be better if there was a longer time frame that the author had to continue the work that they started. In order to make this article better it would need to address the problems indicated in the talk page at the least.