User:Miamiheat12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Leon Pinsker

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because we had just read some of Leon Pinsker's "Autoemancipation", as well as a secondary source analyzing Pinsker, so he seems an important figure in understanding Zionism and also one over which there seems considerable debate.

Evaluate the article
While the information in the article was accurate and neutral, there are definitely some gaps that exist in order to make this a truly high quality article. First of all, it is a very short article and the information available is incredibly sparse. The secondary source we read about Pinsker went into much greater detail and depth than the Wikipedia article does. The second issue is that the article, while having a neutral tone, only advances one idea of Pinsker and his work (the conventional viewpoint). At some point in the article it should mention academics who disagree with the traditional view of Pinsker and delve into the debate over his work a bit. Finally, the sourcing around the article is a bit spotty. There are only three sources included, and at some points in the article it says "needs citation." In terms of the Talk section of the article, there does not seem to be too much of a lively discussion around Pinsker. There is one question about who his dad is and another about an external source, but that is the full extent of the Talk section.