User:Kleio Artemia/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Romano-British culture

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is related to Roman-Britain and it is in the C-class articles list, so I was curious to see why it needs more work.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The article on Romano-British culture has a good foundation but still requires some work. The lead section has a strong first sentence that sets up the article but the rest of the lead section has a couple of unsubstantiated claims and does not provide a complete overview of the rest of the article.

The content of the article is somewhat relevant to the article topic but lacks proper citations, for most of its facts, and makes a couple of statements that are based on myths or beliefs without any references. The article presents key aspects of the Romano-British culture, but could be fleshed out in more detail and there are aspects of the Romano-British culture that are left out, such as the British/Celtic cultures impact on the Roman culture. There could also be more work done to explain what in particular changed in the Celtic culture. In the last paragraph of the article, it discusses the post-Roman period, and says that "there are many theories," Romano-British culture, but it does not go into what these theories are, it only presents one of them. Most of the article presents a pretty unbiased overview however, this section clearly leans in one direction. For sources, there are some that seem like quality academic sources, however there are a couple that are old and a couple that are from websites that do not provide peer-reviewed information.

The overall organization of the article is good, it divides the topic into nice sections, although there could be more sections to broaden the depth of the article. There are not very many images but they all seem to be fairly helpful to the articles information. They are all maps of the UK so it would be helpful to have additional images with different subject matter. This article is in the C-class and is part of a number of wikiprojects, the talk page has some interesting discussion, with a couple of editors disagreeing on subject matter and having a heated argument about Celtic/British culture.

Overall, this article has a good start but still requires a lot of attention. The foundation topics have great potential but lots of the facts in the article are from unreliable sources or are not cited at all. The article is also missing information that could be relevant to this topic, and needs to present the other 'theories' it mentions. There are also disagreements among some of the other editors about what is important to include in the article. As a whole the article is underdeveloped and has some missing information.