User:KarinaAslanyan/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Jacob Faggot

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I randomly came across it, and it was unusually short, so I wanted to check it out.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of this article is unusually short, but it does answer the necessary question of who Jacob Faggot is and why we should care about him. It fails to introduce the other sections of the article. There's only two sections before we enter the References section -- "Life and career" and "Selected bibliography." "Life and career" is really where the body of the article is. Some of the sentences are worded strangely and are unusually short, but they do provide the necessary information about him. I think that perhaps "Life" and "career" could be split down further into an "Early life" and "Career" sections. There's a reference to the "Census in Sweden" page, which no longer exists, so that would be something that would need to be evaluated, as that's one of Jacob Faggot's main contributions to society. There doesn't seem to be many sources to be sited from, as this doesn't seem to be a topic that there's a lot of information on, but I think that the sources that are present have been sited pretty well. However, though they cite their sources, they don't provide page references. The included image fits the article well, I don't think there need to be any more or different images included. The article is pretty well organized, I've already noted above the sectioning issues present. The Talk Page of the article is not very active, with only one short comment.

Overall, I think the article does a pretty good job at communicating the information that it needs to communicate. In agreement with the comment on the Talk Page, much of it seems to be based on only two sources and is a translation of the Swedish Wikipedia article, which I suppose could also be due to a general lack of information. I think that the places to improve would be the writing style, the sectioning, and the sources.