User:Michigander0842/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Portuguese language

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it looks rife with rich information about the Portuguese language and its history and the influence other languages have had on it. I also think Portuguese is a very relevant language in our modern culture as a quarter of a billion people speak this language and the gargantuan size of Brazil is always underestimated as it is a country made up of over 200 million people. I can see that this article is very concise with the information it delivers in the first sentence and paragraph and it seeks to provide people with an expanded knowledge of the Portuguese Language

Evaluate the article
When first reading you can see that the first sentence is very clear and concise with the information provided as it provides a brief history of Portuguese and explains its origins. The first paragraph continues to expand on what was previously explain in the opening sentence by explaining where Portuguese is spoken today and how colonialism has permanently affected the language. The article does seem very neutral and unbiased as no direct opinion is ever stated. There are many ideas presented in this article and none of them seem direct or underrepresented to promote a narrative. There 171 cited references in the article and every claim made is backed up with some sort of evidence. The article does seem very relevant and up to date and the content all seems very logically organized. The article seems very concise and clear and easy to read, everything flows and exists to support a claim or idea made and to expand further on a contemporary idea in Portuguese-speaking culture. The article includes many pictures pertinent to the article and it helps further increase the level of understanding in the article. Every image is captioned and cited and all appear visually appealing. The article is rated as a B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to 7 wiki-projects, Languages, Portugal, Brazil, Macau, Melanesia, Africa, and East Timor. In the talk section of the article, many people disagree as to whether or not the Portuguese Language article should be separate from Lusophone articles as some think Lusophone and Portuguese articles should be separate while others think they should remain together. This wikipedia topic definitely takes a more linguistic and analytical viewpoint of the Portuguese language versus the culture of Portuguese speaking countries. I would have to say that I agree with separating the two and I think more should have been said about the variance in the Portuguese language between Brazilian Portuguese and European/African Portuguese.