User:Maya Millner/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Study of the Hebrew language

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article since I think it is at least tangentially related to our class and a pretty broad topic that should be a good first article for me to evaluate.

Evaluate the article
The lead of this article was very concise, and, in my opinion, lacking some background on the Hebrew language itself and dove right into the study of the language. I felt this section was too concise as it only consisted of one sentence that did not set up the structure or preface the topics explored later in the article well enough. All the information to the article was relevant to the topic and there were no distractions or parts that seemed out of place. I could not identify any issues with tone or biases although the author seemed to bring up a potential controversy without addressing it when writing, "(Israeli scholar Benjamin Harshav diminishes Ben-Yehuda's role..." This is either referring to some conflict between Benjamin Harshav and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda that the author doesn't explain or it is written in a way that incorrectly implies tension. The most recent sources seem to be from around 20 years ago which is not the most current or relevant and I have to believe that there is relevant academic information about the study of Hebrew that has been produced in the last two decades. The links do work. The article was a bit choppy and the sentences were very blunt and the syntax was not the best. Of course I do not expect a wikipedia article to be a literary masterpiece but the syntax and diction used in this article could certainly be improved. There are no blatant spelling or grammar errors and the breakup of the subtopics is good. There are no images in this article which is a shame but there is a nice table at the very bottom that contains a plethora of useful knowledge about the Hebrew language. There were only two comments on the talk page and both of them were from the early 2000s. The article is rated Start-class and is part of Judaism WikiProject. Overall the article is decent, I think more background would be beneficial and it could have been written a bit better but all the content was solid and the links throughout were relevant and functional. I do think the article could be more developed and could go into more modern applications of Hebrew studies but overall the article was good.