User:Mgordier/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Preservation metadata

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was chosen because it is an interesting subject relating to what my current course will be touching on as a whole. I chose preservation metadata over metadata because the narrower focus seemed like a good way to understand how to evaluate an article being that it is more specific and smaller in length/depth. Preservation metadata is an important subset of metadata because it allows for a proper means of preserving digital information and having an article discussing this topic specifically denotes this. The article at first read through, seems to touch many of the significant factors for understanding fully what preservation metadata is and its importance. It includes why preservation metadata exists, why it is necessary, what it covers and how it is used, its relation to metadata as a larger topic, and its state of progression.

Evaluate the article
The lead simply and efficiently described the topic in the first sentence while giving a more overarching definition of preservation data and its existence as a subset of metadata. The article is balanced in terms of how much each section is covered and it is presented in a neutral, direct way that references and credit's external sources that utilize applicable information. The writing of the article was concise, easily understandable, and organized in a logical order.

As for the progression in quality of the article in conjunction with what was brought up in the Talk page, with the 2019 evaluation, it seems that the article was not adjusted to what was recommended. One such way being that the repetition in the lead sentence was not altered as suggested. Other than this it appears some changes were made and being that it is listed as start status for the two active projects out of the three total, additional work could be done and information beyond the basics added to create more depth to the article. I think that the article as it is is well developed in a way that allows for a concise understanding of the material, but it could be built up further if desired.