User:Mswanson22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Inkheart.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This was one of my favorite fantasy novels and movies as a kid.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

-The lead section is short, concise, and does a good job giving an overview of the series. However, it does not include descriptions of the article's main sections. It is also a little weird that it mentions an award the book won and that it was listed as a 'Top 100 book for children', but neither of these facts are referenced or expanded upon in the article in the Critical reception section.

Content:

-The lead section includes the book series' (presumably) original German names. I found this a bit distracting and I think the page either needs to address that the books are originally published in German or take out these German names.

-The film adaptation section literally repeats the two sentences in the lead section on the film and its cast.

-The plot section is very choppy, overly detailed, and disorganized. Also the sentence structures in this section are very repetitive and not very sophisticated or succinct.

-The critical reception section is super short and should definitely be expanded

Tone and Balance:

-The article seems to have neutral tone but the characters are not all covered in the same depth and are covered in odd ways. For example, Dusfinger's character description includes plot points whereas for other characters whereas Basta's character description is basically just 2 sentences on his appearance which isn't really relevant to the role he plays in the story. Other than that however I don't think the article overrepresents or underrepresents any particular viewpoints and it does not attempt to persuade the reader.

Sources and References:

-While the sources aren't super current (i.e. not much from the last 3 years), the book was published in 2003 and most of the sources were published between 2007-2015

-Also some of the sources are in German which kind of makes it hard to verify if you don't know German.

-Some of the links work, and some links just take you to generic website pages and not the specific article/page where Inkheart is mentioned/discussed. The scholastic.com link does not work.

Organization and writing quality:

-Not very professional. Not easy to read, especially the plot section. The organization is fine it's just overall the writing needs to be cleaned up.

Images and Media:

-Basically no images or media which should definitely be improved. The only image that is included is the book cover. They could at least put images from the movie when they talk about the characters, for example

Talk page discussion:

-There are a lot of opinions on the plot section. Some people like it and others think it's overly detailed

-It is a part of three wikiprojects: wikiprojects Novels/Fantasy, wikiproject Children's literature, and wikiproject women writers

Overall impressions:

-The article's overall status is start class

-the organization is pretty good and the lead section is decent

-I think the biggest improvement that can be made is in cleaning up the writing.

-In terms of completeness it seems a bit underdeveloped in important areas like Critical reception and over-developed in other sections like the plot