User:Marvins-island/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: (link) Villa of Livia
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.
 * I chose this article to evaluate because I am interested in learning more about Roman art and the context of significant Roman art and architecture.

Lead evaluation
The lead begins with a slightly vague introductory sentence that does not fully describe the article's main topic and function. The lead includes some relevant information useful for the contextualization of the villa, however it does not provide brief descriptions for the sections within the article. The function of the lead is provide a broad overview regarding the contents and a clear, concise description of the overall topic. I believe this lead could benefit from restructuring and additional information more specific to the villa itself.

Content evaluation
The article's content, while relevant to the topic, is quite specific and limited. The content of this article focuses on the rediscovery of the villa and one fresco residing in the garden room. There should be more content regarding the villa's ancient historical context as well as more sections that may expand on the use and significance of this particular villa. In some areas, the article content sections diverge from the topic sentence and include non relevant information.

Tone and balance evaluation
The tone of the article takes a neutral tone and does not provide any swaying or biased claims. There is balance amongst st the topic sections however they should be improved upon and expanded.

Sources and references evaluation
The sources used for this article are relatively current and come from reliable scholarly books and other writings. I believe this article has a good basic foundation to be built upon but still requires more reliable secondary sources to verify the current information. The sources listed reflect a good scope of the available literature but should be expanded on.

Organization evaluation
This article is easy to read and quite concise though it does have some grammatical errors and sentence awkwardness. The overall organization of this article lacks a flow from one section into the next. The article's main sections talk about the rediscovery of the villa and a garden located within the grounds but features no other sections to aid with the organization of the article's main topics.

Images and Media

Images and media evaluation
This article includes several photos that are related to information provided in the page. Not all photos have captions and those that do have captions are quite brief and simple. Some of the photos are original and have been contributed by the photographer. The other photos have been reused from previously correctly copyrighted images on Wikipedia.

Talk page evaluation
This article is part of the WikiProjects for Architecture but is rated low on the importance scale. There are little to no comments discussing the progress of the article but lists tasks that may be completed to improve on the page.

Overall evaluation
Overall this article has good basic foundations to build upon in order to create a successful article page. It requires a lot more information and grounding to contextualize the villa. One strength the article has is engaging writing and facts that spark interest. This article page would benefit from further content and source development. This article's completeness is underdeveloped.

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