User:MD092022/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Nobel Prize

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I find the Nobel prize to be very interesting as it is one of the most prestigious awards one can receive in academia. It is important because it highlights some of the greatest achievements made by mankind in those 5 fields each year. My immediate impression of the page was that it looked like a very thorough and well written overview of the Nobel prize.

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 lead gives a great overview of the Nobel prize and some of the background surrounding it. However, it may be slightly over-detailed with some extra information that could be possibly moved down into body and it is also lacking a brief description of the major sections. The content is all relevant to the topic and it seems to cover all of the major facets of the award. There is a section of the article regarding controversies surrounding the prizes and controversies are difficult because it is tough to not come across as biased but in general this article does well by including a lot of citations so people can know whose opinions are being mentioned. There are a great number of sources referenced in the article but one issue is that many of the references seem to be from news articles which isn't always the best source of quality information since they are often presented in a way to catch the publics attention. Overall the article is well organized and quite well written but there are some sentences that are a bit abrupt and feel like they've just been thrown in afterwards. Further, some of the captions for the images aren't really descriptive of the image themselves and instead are simply a line of text from the actual content of the article. Otherwise, the images and media do all connect to the topic and help further understanding. The article does have a very active Talk page which can definitely be seen in the quality of the article as it is ranked GA-class. Overall, the article is quite well developed and has clearly been worked on and improved upon by a great deal of people, however, it is still not completely perfect and there are some issues like sources used and sentence structure that could be improved upon.