User:MyDogsBestie/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ethnography

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose Ethnography because it was briefly gone over in class. That's important in the long run with all the cultural barriers. My first impressions are, it's very long. And wordy. And not well sectioned off. Lots of grammatical errors and missing citations.

Evaluate the article
Lead section - The lead section is very long winded and goes over some content that isn't actually in the article? It would probably fair better if there was a well known journal article that they could pull definitions from and then use different sources to lead into what they'll talk about.

Content - The content seems to deal with Ethnography but there are parts that relate to Ethnology instead. There is some mixed up definitions and mashing of topics going on.

Tone and Balance - There's not many issues with tone or balance.

Sources and References - Many of the sources and references are to copyrighted textbooks, or articles and such that are not open source, so you can't really check the entire article out to make sure that it isn't copyrighted fully. The links (when available) do work and a few (definitely not all) are current but I'm sure there are better sources available out there.

Organization and Writing Quality - Its not super concise or clear in parts of what's being said. It looks like there are multiple grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and missing words that make the article harder to read. The main points of the topic weren't laid out before hand so there's no definite organization going on.

Images and Media - There are a few pictures in the article but they don't really enhance understanding of the topic they just show one person and museums that are available. I honestly don't see any cites or refences to where they got those images from.

Talk Page - The conversations behind-the-scenes are quite similar to what I've outlined because it's such a problem in the article that I noticed it on my first run through and others have noticed it as well. There are some talks about copyright infringements, grammatical and structural errors, among many other problems with the article. This article is apart of both Sociology and Anthropologies WikiProjects.

Overall Impressions - This article could use some work on it. It has some strengths, like how it goes over different parts of Ethnography and how it related to different disciplines. But, overall it could be improved by using journal articles, more citable sources that are fully accessible to the public, and the improvement on grammar, spelling, and structural errors. This article is poorly-developed. While there is a lot of material there I'm honestly not sure quite a bit of it is relevant to the topic on hand.