User:Lilmarie1015/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
James Mosley

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it didn't look too intimidating and I wanted to learn about somebody new in the graphic design world!

Evaluate the article
Lead:

The Wikipedia article on James Mosely opens with a sentence that introduces Mosely’s career position and the area he specialized in. However, there is more to be desired. There is no information to tell us why he is important. He was a librarian and historian, and had a career at the St Bride Printing Gallery, but why do we care? The author of this article does not make it explicit. The lead does go into the article’s major sections, but there are only two. Overall, the lead has good textbook information but does not inform us as to why this person is important.

Content:

The content is relevant to the topic. It is also relatively up-to-date, giving information as to what Mosely has been up to since retirement. Like I said earlier, though, there is a lot to be desired. The article does not go into detail. They do a good job at giving a surface-level run down, but if someone were relying on this content to write a paper or to try and get a deep understanding of James Mosely, this would not be the right article to read.

Tone:

The article remains neutral throughout and is free of bias.

Sources:

The references section is the longest one on the entire page. They did a really good job at researching for this page. This is why I am surprised that there is a lack of information. They obviously researched to a great extent, so why is there only a few paragraphs of information?

Organization:

The writing was very easy to read and understand. The sections (though minimal) were broken down in a way that made sens i.e. education, career. I did not catch any grammatical errors!

Images:

No images provided :(

Overall Impression:

Overall, I think this is a really good start! There is a lot to be desired. I think they could have gone into so much more detail about why this person was influential in the art history world and why he mattered. I know a lot about what this person did career wise, but not much about why it is important I know about them. I think I would give this article about a D+, almost a C. I don’t think this is quite yet reaching the expectation.