User:Nmoore23/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gaul

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I'm very interested in Roman history so I thought I would find an article that deals with something related to the Roman Empire. I'm interested to see if any historical biases make there way into this Wikipedia article.

Evaluate the article
Good introduction sentence which concisely describes the article's topic.

The introduction eludes to each of the articles sections, although I'm not sure if they would count as brief descriptions

Lead does not include information not in the article

I would say that the lead is concise

The content is relevant to the topic

Although I am not a scholar of Roman history, the article does seem to be up to date

Don't think any content is missing or unbelonging

I do not think this article deals with any of Wikipedia's equity gaps

The article is neutral

There are not claims that seem heavily biased towards one position

The Roman viewpoint is overrepresented but that is essentially all the information that scholars have to work with given this is over 2,000 year old history

Don't think there are any fringe viewpoints here

This article does not attempt to persuade

All the facts seem to be supported by reliable sources

The sources aren't the most current but once again, this is 2,000 year old history

It's unclear whether the spectrum of authors is diverse

The links do appear to function

I think the article is very well written

I did not catch any grammatical or spelling errors

I think the article is well-organized

I think all the images are visually appealing, well-captioned, and add the article's value

There are actually quite a high number of disputes on the talk page over different historical facts like the etymology of the word 'Gaul'

This article has been listed as a level 5 vital article in history and has a C-Class rating

I thought the article's strength was giving a brief overview of one part of the world from about 2,000 years ago

It seems like the article needs to be improved with more up-to-date historical research, but that much of the knowledge about this time period is disputed by people who have done different levels of research