User:Mirandamc/Evaluate an Article

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Military history of the Miꞌkmaq

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 chose this article because it relates to our subject matter in class, Native American history, and we had briefly discussed the Mi'kmaq in class so I recognized the name. This article matters because it is important to recognize all the impacts these people had on history and their relations with other tribes, foreigners, and even within the tribe itself. My first impression of the article was that it had extensive knowledge of the Mi'kmaq people and relations with others and was able to give descriptions of their military power and experiences in battle.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

This article is well written with a very concise and reads like a thesis and introduction statement to an essay. It explains the context and where the article is going to go before heading further into the details. It has very clear sections and headers that state the century, the main battle and smaller raids that took place for a very clear timeline. Every section has its own detailed and concise paragraph of relatively the same sizes. The timeline of military history even goes towards the more modern era of the twentieth century. The article also has plenty of references to other articles related to the Mi'kmaq people and veterans of the battles. It also includes links to articles of important people within the military history for more context and information. It has 15 endnotes and 200 citations. It does only have 18 sources, so the amount of sources could be improved and added onto for better consistency and more detailed information. Each section is also highlighted with images with short but descriptive captions relative to people or significant items related to battles and raids.

There are some sections that are significantly smaller than others and the article does have its weak spots and could be improved by more specific information on smaller raids and more the modern eras of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The talk page shows that this article has been edited and has had more sources added and fixed. It was last edited in January 2022 and the talk page was edited in February 2022. Overall, this article is well-developed but has room for improvements especially in adding sources just to add relevant information to keep the article up to date and a good source for studying and research. It is written well, concise and mentions other relevant information, people, places, events to make the information compatible and easy to access from one point to another.