User:Kbae67/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Home economics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because home economics should be an important subject in early education to prepare children for life outside of school environments. I want to be an elementary school teacher, so learning about this is important to me. My impression of the article at first glance is that it's going to have a lot of historical information.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: The introductory sentence seems to be unrelated at first glance. It does include the basic summary of what is included in the article (that home economics is taught around the world. The lead is pretty concise.

Content: The content is pretty relevant to the topic. The last edit was made on April 3, 2021, so it is pretty up-to-date. As I read I feel like there wasn't any information missing, but I also am just learning the details on this subject. In the Talk page, however, a teacher who teaches this topic noted that we don't call the subject Home Economics anymore (it's Family and Consumer Science) in the U.S. so the article shouldn't be titled as Home Economics. But, in response to that, someone said Family and Consumer Science is not what other countries use so it's more neutral and without bias to only use the Americanized term/title.

Sources and references: There are a lot of sources used (39 total). They made sure to cite a lot of their information that they used. For example, the is a use of dictionary.com for the definition of home economics, which is important so the readers know they didn't just steal the definition and make it their own. However, with the amount of cited sources, it seems very cluttered and unorganized. Also, even though the article itself has been edited recently, most of the sources are from a long time ago.

Organization and quality: The article is well-written in my opinion, it had a lot of good historical information. It also included the historical and geographical context of the topic in other countries.

Images and media: The images used were captioned well and the majority were informative and elaborated on the information. However, there was one that didn't make much sense to me, which was the one next to the Germany title captioned with "Gardening in Ofleiden, 1898." This wasn't mentioned anywhere under Germany's description.

Talk page: There was a lot of action in the Talk page, including requests to move things and questions about the topic. The article was rated C-class and is of interest in five WikiProjects.

Overall impressions: Overall the article was well-written with interesting and mostly credible sources. The images were good except for the one I mentioned above since it didn't make much sense with being next to the Germany section. Finally, the article is neutral and without much bias by the information described from the other countries and centuries rather than it just being North America and current times.