User:Natharris/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
History of knitting

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because it has a good foundation but could use a few improvements. My first impression of this article was that it seemed a tad underwhelming for such an important topic in the textile arts.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

The article starts off the lead section by describing what knitting is. There is not really any details about the article's main sections. Most importantly, there is information in this section that is not present anywhere else. Overall, the lead section could be more concise with more detail.

Content

I believe the content is relevant to the topic of the article. However, the the "Early 21st century revival" section needs to be a bit more up-to-date. There also seems to be a few details missing in the from the origins section. Along with this, there lacks information regarding the Middle East's early contributions towards knitting; instead the article opts for a "Early European knitting" section.

Tone and Balance

While the article seems to be neutral, it does have a bias toward favoring European history and ignores going into more detail about its Middle Eastern origins. Even with this, I don't believe any of the content is trying to be persuasive toward one idea or the other.

Sources and References

In the era sections, there were almost no facts backed up by sources. In the other sections, the sources were mostly outdated and a mix of being reputable and not reputable. Also, many of the links worked but some did not.

Organization and Writing QualityOverall, the article has a good structure but it could be broken down into better sections that reflect the topic better. There doesn't seem to be any major spelling errors and the majority of the article is well-written and easy to read. However in some places, the writing can be less than concise.

Images and Media

I would say that the images inside the article provide some understanding of the history of knitting, are captioned well, adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations, and are positioned in an appealing way. However, it would be nice if there were photos of early knitted items.

Talk Page Discussion

In this high-importance C-Class article apart of the Textile Arts WikiProject, a few editors have discussed potential edits and ways to improve certain parts of the article.

Overall Impressions

This article has a good foundation as its strength. If more details were added and some of the sources were updated, this article could see some real improvement. And overall, there are just a few things needed to make this article complete and fully-developed.