User:KrypticAaron/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Lady Gaga

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
We wanted to evaluate an article that interests us and Lady Gaga caught our passing interest. Our first impression is that the article is quite large but probably rightfully so, considering Lady Gaga's history.

Evaluate the article
We believe that the article's introduction is extensive, however; considering the entire article's length, we believe that it summarizes the entire article well. We feel that the introduction could be more useful if it were slightly less detailed, as the amount of detail in the introduction can make it hard to find the information that should be the most accessible. It might be possible to omit certain details that will show up later in the article.

The majority of the article is constructed well. There is a large quote from Lady Gaga that could have been summarized in the “1986-2004: Early life” section. We also believe that it may be possible to combine the “Impact” and “Achievements” sections for the sake of expeditiousness. We don’t believe that the article is missing any information and represents all populations equitably.

The article does take a neutral tone, clearly citing information without narrativizing it. The article talks about any controversial topic fairly. All parties seem fairly represented.

There are a large amount of sources including a healthy amount of literary sources. The entirety of the article has citations for sources that can be found under the “References” section. All of the web sources are cited well, however some of these sources have web pages that are not user friendly. There is a wide variety of sources that do link to websites.

The article is well written and organized. There are plenty of images with appropriate captions.

The talk page for Lady Gaga seems to be focused on correcting misinformation as well as aesthetic choices to better design the article. The article is the interest of many wikiprojects and is listed as a Level-5 vital article.

The article’s strength is its length, but that’s also its greatest weakness. It appears, according to the talk page, that all editing done to this article at this stage is detail oriented and not symptomatic of a larger issue.

Aaron~