User:Khuang1283/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Dress history

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have an interest in clothing. I am evaluating it as part of my class exercise. My initial impression is that the article is missing some supporting evidence.

Evaluate the article
The lead section provides a good summary of what dress history is about. However, it doesn't provide a good description of the sections that follow. There are a few words mentioned such as manufacture and modes of dress that aren't highlighted further in the article.

The section "Dress historical research" goes into detail about how a dress historian performs research on dress history. The section is informative, but in the context of the introductory paragraphs, it would seem the article is going to discuss the history of dress and not how a dress historian studies dress history.

The article appears to be neutral in tone. There does not appear to be a bias toward a position or opinion.

The references provided appear to come from a variety of academic sources. For the most part, the articles appear to be current. The oldest cited source is dated from 1995.

Overall, the article is well written, but has a lot of lengthy sentences with multiple elements (i.e., commas) per sentence.

There are a few images that enhance the appeal of the article, but it is not clear why those images are included with respect to the article. In other words, the images are not mentioned specifically in the article.

In regards to the talk page, there appears to be a lot of discussion among the contributors about the relevance of certain content. Currently, the article has a "C" rating.

The article has room for improvement. For example, including additional sections, discussion of dress history and not just historian methods for studying dress, and adding additional citations.