User:Marcplummer82/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Talk:Peace movement

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the Peace movement because I was interested to learn what this movement is and why it considered being a C-class article. My preliminary impression of the Peace movement article is that appeared to be a somewhat of a short article but organized.

Evaluate the article
Yes, the lead includes an introductory sentence that clearly describes the article topic of the peace movement. I would like to point out the third sentence in the lead section. In my opinion, I think this information should still be included in the article but re-worded because it feels like a run-on sentence with way too many examples. I can see a couple of methods of learning how to achieve world peace but I think using around seventeen examples is way too many and should be broken down into multiple sentences. There is not really any brief description of the article’s main sections. The only real description that is made for the main sections is the examples being listed are the methods of how world peace is achieved but does not specifically go into what peace movements and history is going to talk about. I would say the overall lead is very brief but lacks detail, it seems like the article states more examples in the lead rather than defining what a peace movement is. I think the article’s content is somewhat relevant to the topic of peace movements. The article does a great job breaking the history of peace movements but needs more content that is up to date. The most recent piece of information added to the article was from 2017 regarding the Women’s Wage Peace in Israel. Although, I do think the peace movements section in the United States needs an update because the latest was in 2011. I think they could add more recent movements in the United States. I think there is a bias in this article because they only have five countries being spoken about for movements which seems to be limited. Also, I think it’s from their perspective on what they think is a peace movement. The article has reliable secondary sources for the information majority are from universities and news outlets. A few sources I found not to be current because it gave me the 404 not found icon. Moreover, the older sources are from books. The beginning was somewhat hard to read but became easier when learning about the history. Yes, there are some spelling errors in the article. For example, one sentence states “ Foremost among these churches wre the Religious Society of Friends”, which misspelled the word were. I think the article is broken up into the sections that needed to be highlighted. The pictures are well selected helping to display a visual during different movements and are well-captioned In the talk page the main conversations are the reconstruction of certain paragraphs and the edits that were made. This article is rated a C-class. Overall, I think the article is alright and could use a couple of edits. Fixing the article grammatically would make it easier read and add more current information regarding peace movements.