User:LibraryKat95/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
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 * Name of article: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
 * I recently read a book called The House of Salt and Sorrows which was loosely based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy tale and I wanted to learn more about the story.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation

==== The Lead is incredibly short and leaves much room for improvement, more background information could be given about the story such as the moral implications of the story and many fairy tales have been evaluated to have a moral at the end as well as some more background about the author and his inspiration for the story if research allows. The lease introduction is concise and straight to the point and is the most adequate portion of the lead. There is no brief description of the article's major sections and if one were included it would add much to the clarity of the article. The time in which the story is listed is only located in the lead and nowhere else in the article, making it unclear later in the article if The Twelve Dancing Princesses is an original work or a variant of yet another story. ====

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Content evaluation
'''A major concern about the content is that the plot section has no citations at all and this will be addressed as well in the sources and references section the plot of the story is a summary of the story as a whole and comes across as a speedy retelling more than a simple outline of the major points of the story and this along with the lack of citations calls into question whether the plot section could be considered plagiarized. The variants and adaptation sections being separate is also slightly confusing as different tellings of the same story may all be considered variants, therefore the variants and adaptions section might be merged into one Variants and Adaptations.'''

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
'''For the most part the tone is neutral however there are several uses of words like 'similar' which implies an opinion and comparison between two different works which may imply some lack of neutrality. There are also several comments throughout the summaries of adaptations that imply some attempt at story interpretation which may or may not be valid. Overall the article appears to be mainly focused as providing an informative point of view while providing lists of similar works, but without citations for the adaptations some comments can only be seen as interpretive.'''

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
'''References and sources in the standout issue with The Twelve Dancing Princesses Article. There are only a few citations throughout the whole article (most of which are in the notes section) and only one reference so some of the citations aren't even listed among the references. There are no citations for any of the adaptions and most adaptations and variants listed are only linked back to different related Wiki articles, leaving little to no evidence showing if a supposed adaptation truly is based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses which is especially true for The House of Salt and Sorrows as there is no citation or link for this listing.'''

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
'''The article is fairly well written in the sense that it has next to no grammatical or spelling errors however it is hard to say if some of the information wasn't just pulled from a different web page as there is minimal citation work. The section breakdown has much to be desired as the adaptation section has such a long list it could be broke up further into a TV adaptions, Movie adaptions, Other Book Adaptions sections which may provide a clearer separation between the adaptations and variants sections.'''

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
'''There are only three images present throughout the article. With such a long list of variants and adaptations I feel there is a opportunity to include more images to provide a clear context of the varying interpretations of the story. The third image in the article is well captioned why the other two only have the author and date listed which leaves room for confusion about how the image is connected to the rest of the article. The third image is uploaded to the article as a jpeg by a user and is thus marked as the users own work however the image is from 1942 so this is unlikely and needs to be cited properly to meet copyright standards.'''

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
The talk page is surprisingly sparse for how many resources need to be added and cited and discussed to make this article relevant and to meet higher Wiki standards. One of the two (there are only two) talk points calls into question how the German Title would be written out vs how it is in the article while the other talk point just states that the story is great and that they are surprised Disney has not made a movie about the story yet. The article is tagged on the WikiProject Children's literature, WikiProject Novels / Fantasy, and the WikiProject Russia / Language & literature / Demographics & ethnography WikiProjects.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
'''The article is sorely lacking in content and could be better organized. The glaring issue to me is the lack of citations and that most citations that are in the article aren't present in the reference section. I wanted to evaluate this article so I might learn more about the story a book I just completed was based on but there are so few citations linked to the information provided that I can put very little trust into anything I read and I am sure many other readers who may be interested in or research The Twelve Dancing Princesses story would feel the same.'''

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