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Great Books

 * Name of article: Great books
 * This article goes into detail describing what Great Books consists of, where and who started it, the Great Books program and what Universities utilize it, as well as other sources of information to further expand the knowledge that is entailed within Great Books.

Lead
The Lead describes what Great Books is and how it consists of 100-150 books within a set. The lead however does not go into great detail as to what the article itself entails. It's a bit underwritten in its conciseness.

Content


The articles content is relevant to the topic at hand. It talks about the origin of Great Books, and it's concepts, as well as how the Great Books program got its start and what it does for Universities in varying countries to further talk about western literature. The content has been updated within the recent years including sources.

Tone and Balance
The article is neutral in nature and there are no heavily biased opinions within the article. The viewpoints presented within the article each have an equal amount of representation and there's no attempts at swaying readers to have a certain viewpoint.

Sources and References
All the facts presented in the article have secondary sources which are hyperlinked within the article. The sources reflect each viewpoint, book, and college represented as well as other bits of information. The sources have been updated in the recent years and are up to date and working.

Organization
The article itself is well written and concise and easy to read. There are no grammatical errors and the major points are broken down well and organized in a way that's easy for readers to follow.

Images and Media
The article only has one image included which gives an overall understanding of the topic which is books. The image captioned is very cut and dry, and the images adhere to the copyright regulations.

Checking the talk page
The conversations going on behind the scenes include the sexism going on within the list of Great Books. It also discusses that there was previously a merge of groups within the article that should not have been presented, and has since been separated out in the article. The article itself is rated as a starter article.

Overall impressions


The articles overall status is very neutral and it's strengths are presented in the Great Books program section of the article. The points where it could further be improved are the Lead paragraph when trying to further explain information presented in the article, and in the controversy section with a bit of further elaboration. It's well-developed overall.

Comment:

This is a very solid evaluation. I agree that the Lead paragraph is weak. When I read it, I still did not fully understand what this article was going to be about. More images would have been helpful, too.