User:MarcusLeach19/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Mock Language
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.

I chose this article because I recently read about Mock Language and found it interesting.

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 has an introduction sentence that does describe the topic, but could have been made clearer. The Lead does not do a good job describing the major sections of the article. The main problems I had were the sentences were difficult to understand, and the Lead did not give me a brief overview of the article. I also thought it was unnecessary to basically say mock Spanish is the most common mock language in the United States twice.

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
The articles content was all relevant to the topic, but to often I would be reading the same thing again. Everything I looked at seems to be kept up to date. Mostly the content that felt like it didn't belong was representative stuff. While reading the article it felt like we were missing information about the use of mock language outside the United States and how it's perceived.

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
The article doesn't feel neutral and does seem to have problems with keeping an unbiased tone and perspective. Also, very little was give as to why people use mock language and how they justify it.

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
The links I checked did work and were from reputable sources. Not all the information was backed by secondary sources and there was information that looked like original research.

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
I'm not the best grammatically but there were sentences that did not read correctly and seemed to have a word missing. The overall article I found was difficult to read because it repeated itself a lot and had areas that did not carry a clear line of thought. The sections did reflect a lot of the key points of the topic, but the content of the sections were lacking information.

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
The images include were useful in aiding the topic and gave good examples of it. The images were laid out on the side which didn't get in the way of the reading and the were adjacent to their relevant information. The image captions were to long because they described the image and then gave us information we had already read in the article.

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
This article is apart of the WikiProject Linguistics and has been rated low importance on the projects importance scale. The quality rating of the article is C-class. I couldn't find any conversations about this topic.

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
This article is underdeveloped and deserving of its C-class. While the article does have a good base of information it feels very basic and gives about the same or even less information then we covered in class. For someone who just heard of mock language this article provides some information, but it does not provide anything deeper then a baseline. This article first and foremost should be gone through and adjusted to clean up some of the mistakes and difficult to understand sentences. Some parts of the article should possible be cut due to the information already being stated earlier in the article. Overall the base of a good article is present it just needs to be cleaned up, presented clearly, and expanded upon.

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