User:Kylee Jane/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
To be honest, this was the example article given to me as a test trial and it is just helping me understand the techniques of Wikipedia evaluation. ~

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 has a good introduction paragraph, describing what the "Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is". To me, it has a good overall sense of what this article will be about as they mention who the artist is, and what the experiment is that the painting is about. Both of these subtopics have links connecting us to the articles that talk about the painter and the experiment.

There are quotes from Robert Boyle, which gives us a look into factual evidence that was said by him. I am not sure if this paragraph needed quotation marks since it was his own words, even when the author did set up the paragraph with "he describes".

There is a good overall background of the artists previous paintings to give a sense of what type of painter he is and how he started, where he came from, and how it will later roll into the piece that this article is about. The author describes the painting in great detail putting a vibrant picture in the reader's mind. There is insight on certain animals or objects in the painting about their history and how it related to that period of time. ~