User:Livydhein/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Woodblock printing

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article is directly relevant to the course topic as well as something I find interesting. The topic has historical significance as an art form. The article seems well organized and appropriately thorough.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is concise and provides an overview of the concept of woodblock printing and touches on all of the basic topics covered without going too in depth. The content appears up to date, being last edited last week (Mar 31, 2022). Everything in the article is relevant and pertinent, there is no excessive unrelated information and there is no problematic emphasis or neglect of any one topic, with the exception of the "Asia and North Africa" section is short, but seemly only because of lack of information and relevancy. The tone of the article is entirely neutral, with no implication of biases towards a point of view of any kind. This article is largely fact based, so there doesn't appear to be any viewpoint biased, and the article doesn't seem to have any bias on weather the content is "good" or "bad." There are 58 references listed, with a works cited and external links. The references listed range from mid 1900s- to 2019. Almost all paragraphs have at least one citation, but there are some facts that don't have refences that I think should for clarity and reliability. References include thorough, reliable sources such as university and museum journals, PhD dissertations and library of congress documents. All the links I checked took me directly on online journals or pdfs. The article is professionally written and free of spelling errors. The article is primarily separated into "history" and "tequnique" sections which have subsection for dates and locations. There is an index for this under the lede. The article features 15 images, all appropriately captioned and cited. They are relevant examples on the topic that give readers a better understanding of the topic- the photos are examples of the art form as well as examples of the machinery used to make it. This article is part of a WikiProject on visual arts and received a C-rating. The most recent discussion was from 2019 regarding an inconsistency, but there have also been discussions about merging articles, external links and references. The way things are discussed on the Talk page is very businesslike and professional. Overall I think this is a useful, well constructed article. There are some things that could make use additional references and some sections that could be expanded. If there is more up to date information/citations, they should be looked at and included where relevant.