User:NickUT1234/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Abbasid Caliphate - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.) I had decided to select this article due to its strong relation with the material we have covered so far in our course. The status as the Abbasid Caliphate as of the early and one of the most dominant Islamic empires makes it a very fascinating Wikipedia page to read over. The article matters in that it gives the reader a sense of how the earliest Islamic empires had formed and their rapid growth over the Middle East and North Africa. My impression of the article is that it is very well made and has a great deal of information and academic sources to back up the facts presented through ought.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of the article gives the reader a simple and concise overview of the main points covered in detail throughout the article. It provides a brief summary of the main section that are further covered, and it does so in a detail-oriented manner. The lead does not include any information that is not related to the subject at hand. In the content of the article the information is all up to date from what I can tell, and it is all related to the subject material at hand. The tone of the article is made out to be very neutral and there is no persuasion towards one viewpoint over the other. After clicking through multiple of the sources added below, I had found them all to be working and going back to academic sources rather than opinionated articles. the sources in addition to being legitimate are very thorough and some are very recent. I had found the article to be very easy to read and to be well written. The Images are of good quality and help the reader to visualize the Abbasid Caliphate to the best ability. Thus, my overall impression of the article is that it is a well-done informative article that gives the reader a good grasp over the Abbasid Caliphate.