User:Melanierobertson/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Renaissance (Beyoncé album)

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 am choosing to evaluate this article, because it's a new Beyonce album that has gain a lot of attention. This article has much value to it because Beyonce, being one of the most respected famous song writers of all time, finally dropped new music for her fans. My preliminary impression of it was to gain more knowledge on the background information of the album it self: how it came to place.

Evaluate the article
Renaissance released her seventh Beyonce album that is her first solo studio release since her last album in 2016. Beyonce recorded and conducted this album during the covid-19 pandemic to try and bring joy and confidence in isolated listeners. This album not only brings an upbeat mood to its listeners, it also pays homage to the black and queer pioneers of the genres. This article does include a well paraphrased introduction of the topic and consists of brief descriptions following important context matter. This lead is concise to its topic, as it is not to detailed or too broad and it does not include information that is not present in the overall article.

The article's content is relevant to the topic as it evaluates the background information of the coming together album: Renaissance. The content of this article is up to date, as the album itself just has been recently released. Much detail is included in this article. A context they covered in this article that may not be completely relevant to the topic itself is its reception part of the article as it can form opinionated biases, instead of focuses on the main development and key concept of the article. The only thing that could be questionable is whether to include the biography aspect of the artist herself. Yes, this topic does indeed deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gap as it addresses a historically painting that the actual album cover is based off itself that could not have been as popular, or noticed, before the release of her album.

For the most part this article does tend to be neutral, but it does include in the section, Reception, opinionated reviews and singular sides to a story of copywriting. There are no specific heavily bias toward a particular position of the reviews of the article, it mostly includes both aspects of good and bad reviews. In the section, Controversies, there was a singular view about similarity of a particular song in the album to another artists and did not include Beyonce's stance, only the other artistes negative feedback. The viewpoints may be a little over presented, but not as an attention drawing away factor. The article does not attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position, instead it informs the reader on factual information during the process of creating the album Renaissance.

This article is for the most part based on the best sources available for this topic, but due to the limitation of the album just being released, there is not much peer-reviewed publications on this. Most of all of the factual and background information of this article is backed up by a reliable secondary thorough source. These sources are all mostly current, but this article also includes history of Beyonce's career albums, and other historic information. When checking the links attached to this article, all seemed to work correctly and were valid. There is a wide spectrum of authors included in this article that strengthens the support of the information given.

The organization of the writing is very clear and professional. The content is organized into sensible sections and is a well-written easy read. I was not able to gather any grammatical errors fortunately. The article is broken down into sections that reflect the major valuable points of the Renaissance album.

Yes, this article does include images that enhance understanding of the topic such as the reasoning behind her cover art. The images are well captioned as well as cited. The organization of the images is laid out in a appealing way, not causing too much distraction to the reader.

There have only been a couple of discussion points among other wikipedia editors. Some have said to include the name of the choir members conducting in the album itself and that a person mentioned in the article is Beyonce's nephew not uncle. I didn't think to fact check the names included in this article, that could be a possible future reference when evaluating specific information like that.

The overall status of this article is relatively constructed well as I did not seek many errors. The strengths of this article I believe are the organization aspect and the relevant information of the album itself. Although these strengths override the weaknesses of this article, there is always room for improvement. This article includes many specific information which is all not entirely related to the main topic itself, which may distract readers causing them to loose interest. If you were to eliminate some of the not entirely related information of the article, it would improve the main topic to be more clear and valuable. I would asses they article's completeness by being well-developed, but also overly developed.

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