User:Mmeyers11/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Confined space
 * I have chosen this article to evaluate because it is relevant to the class as it discusses confined space accidents and how they are related to occupational safety and health.

Lead
The lead includes an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes this articles topic. Instead of including a brief description of the article's major sections, the lead goes on to further describe what a confined space is and how it can be an occupational hazard for workers. The lead does not include information that is not present in the article. In fact, the information given in the lead is further explained in the sections following it. I feel as though the lead is slightly overly detailed, and these details would have made more sense in a section following the lead.

Content
The article's content is relevant to the topic of confined spaces. Although the article's content seems up to date, I think some more recent statistics would be helpful for this page. I feel as though there is a little content missing in the "Rescue" section of the article, but there does not seem to be any information that does not belong.

Tone and Balance
The article seems neutral and there does not seem to be any claims that appear heavily biased, as most of the information provided here is statistical. As mentioned before, I believe the "Rescue" section could use more information. I think the article does not attempt to persuade the reader or way or another, but instead does show the issues that could arise in occupational settings with confined spaces.

Sources and References
Some facts within this article are backed up by reliable secondary sources. I do believe however more things within this article do need to be cited and that some things could also be linked to other Wikipedia articles. The sources provided are good ones, but I would not say they are thorough. I believe there is a lot of literature on this topic that could be used to make this article better. The sources used are not extremely new, but I would still consider most of them pretty current. After checking several links, they all seemed to work fine.

Organization
I find this article clear and easy to understand. I did not find any spelling errors, but I do believe there are a few misplaced commas. In my opinion, this article is also broken down into sections that make sense and reflect the major points of the main topic.

Images and Media
There is only one image throughout this article, and I think adding more could definitely help readers to better understand the topic. The single image is decently captioned, although the picture is a little hard to see and could be bigger.

Checking the talk page
There does not seem to be any recent conversations going on in the talk pages about how to better represent this topic. This article is given a C rating and I do not believe is it a part of any WikiProjects.

Overall impressions
The overall status of the article is rated at C-Class. I think some strengths are the statistics given and the very in depth description of what a confined space is and how it can affect workers. Some more recent statistics and pictures could be added to this article to improve it. I think this article is almost complete, although it could use some touch ups and a little bit more information.