User:Joerogansavedmylife/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Maud Martha

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.) I chose this article because I am a fan of Gwendolyn Brook's writing, and was interested to learn that she had wrote a novel. The article matters because it provides encyclopedic information on Gwendolyn Brook's only novel. My preliminary impression is that it would be an okay article that needs a decent amount of improvement.

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 of Maud Martha is good overall, there is only one major flaw which is that it includes information that is not present in the article. The information on what occurs in the book in the lead is nowhere to be seen in the Article, but this problem can be fixed if the article as a whole is added to, the lead overall does not need major edits.

On content this article is pretty much devoid of any real substance. It does not go over the book at all there should be about 3 or 4 major headings added with content in each of them. These headings being: one on plot, one on themes of the book, one on critical reception since the one present could barely be described as one and one on the novels publication history.

The writing in the article is good, it is clear and meets the conventions and standards of writing that would make a good article.

The sources for the article are good.

Overall the article is underdeveloped, It has the frame of a good skeleton but it's missing a ton of bones that can make it reach that good article status.