User:Nouha Mihoubi/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
As i was looking for a communications related document to evaluate, I happened to find this article which talks about visual communications. I thought this was very interesting and that it would provide me with extra knowledge on a field of communications which I have never looked into before.

Evaluate the article
This was a very interesting article indeed, on a very interesting topic. Here are my overall thoughts, and some things I suggest to strengthen the quality of this article:


 * When it comes to the lead section, I felt like it was overall a strong and concise lead. It started off strong, with an introductory sentence which presents the topic at hand very well by providing a brief definition. It then includes a very brief description of the article's major sections, and everything mentioned in the lead was talked about in depth throughout the article.
 * One thing I noticed, is that the article had some citation problems. One of the pictures used was not cited (major social media apps picture), and one of the links provided for a reference (reference 20: "Toward A Framework for Intercultural Visual Communication A Critical Review and Call for Research") does not work. Other than that, everything said throughout the article was backed up by a source, but the sources were not very diversified. Three of the sources came from the same author: Rothwell, J. Dan, as well as Robert. F who was mentioned twice in the reference section, which led me to think that the article could have been to some degree biased. And finally, there were page numbers missing in three of the sources. So, i would suggest for the references to be diversified in order to stray away from giving a biased tone to the article. Also, citation problems have to fixed: a picture has to be cited, and all links provided in the reference section should be working. Furthermore, the references are not very up to date, which I believe is very important especially since the article talks about visual communications, which is constantly changing and evolving as technology advances.
 * When it comes to some of the main topics talked about throughout the article, there is an evident focus on the social media and political aspect, and very little focus on the economic and cultural aspect. There should be a good balance of coverage and information provided for each of the different aspects which are affected by visual communications.
 * This article, in spite of it being about visual communications, uses very little visual elements such as pictures, to enhance understanding of the topic. There were only two photos throughout the entire article, which I thought did not add anything to the article itself. It would have been good to add pictures of the visual elements discussed in order to enhance the understanding of what is discussed. For example, it would have been good to add pictures of graphs and charts to support the argument in the economic section of the article.
 * The talk page discussion touches on some very good points, but there aren't many conversations going on. As for the article, it has been rated as "start-class" which shows that there is lots of room for improvement. It is also of interest to three wiki-projects: Wiki-project graphic design, Wiki-project media, and wiki-project Systems.