User:Jray111/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Donald Crews

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Donald Crews was an author referenced in an academic article we read as a class and they highlighted his book Bigmama's, which does not have its own wiki page. My first impression of the page was that it was quite incomplete and could use some work.

Evaluate the article
The lead section starts off well and does mention his date of birth as well as his notability in the field of children's literature, even mentioning some of the awards he has been honored with. However, it doesn't really give an overview of all the sections that will be touched upon in the rest of the Wiki article. It does include some information that isn't present elsewhere in the article, namely the fact that he was awarded the "Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal," which isn't stated elsewhere in the body of the article. Not a great overview/concise summary of his career.

The content of the article seems relevant to the topic, there just isn't extensive content present in the article. The career section could be expanded and for his most notable books, especially ones that have been granted awards, there should be a section or sections that describe what the works are about and what scholarly discussion has occurred about them.

Images or media are not present and the article could definitely benefit from them. A photograph of Donald Crews himself would add to the article, but more than that, as the author of children's picture books, some work from his notable books would really add to the article.

Looking at the talk page, there isn't much of any discussion occurring at all and the only thing present there is a note about editing external links. In general, this and all the other shortcoming of the article are connected to why this article's overall status is Start-class and can be improved at least in the several ways I have outlined above.

Overall, what is there looks alright, but there is much to be expanded upon and isn't much there to judge. In general, more needs to be added to this page and having heard about this author from the context of academic literature, I know that there must be more out there that can be added. The sources that are there look fine, but as I said, there could certainly be more.