User:Mjohnson151/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Michel Fingesten

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I discovered this article while looking through random wikipedia articles and was interested in the artist, his work, and his life. Fingesten's life and work are historically significant. My initial impression of the article was that it wasn't glaringly poorly written and gave a good overview of the artist, but that it wasn't very long and it seemed like there could have been more to say on the topic.

Evaluate the article
The lead sentence clearly communicates the topic of the article and the lead section as a whole isn't overly detailed, but it doesn't address the article's major sections and also includes information that isn't present in the article-- a quote from a critic about the artist that isn't given context.

The content in the article is all relevant to the topic. The information itself seems up to date, but an offensive and dated term is used to describe the artist's mother. All of the content that is there belongs there, but there isn't much information about his art or its significance, or about his life after leaving the concentration camp or the circumstances of his death. The article does address topics related to a historically underrepresented population, being about an artist who was a jewish holocaust survivor.

The article is neutral and doesn't include any biased claims or arguments for specific positions or viewpoints.

Only half of the paragraphs in the article include a citation and some claims have no citation supporting them. The sources seem to reflect the available literature on the topic, given that the artist seems to be fairly unknown in the current day. Some of the sources are fairly old(2006) but others are as recent as 2020. I couldn't find better available sources and had a difficult time evaluating the sources it did have, as only a few were in English. The links all work.

The article isn't poorly written, but it isn't very well organized and the wording is clumsy in places.

The article does include images of the artist's work that enhance understanding of the topic. They're captioned accurately and are laid out in a way that's visually appealing.

The talk page for this article is empty.

This article is rated as start-class. It works as a base summary of the topic but could be improved with editing, better organization, and more and more thorough sources. It's not yet well-developed.