User:Noveljams/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Audience

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The Audience is imperative to communications and media. Without an audience who are you communicating with or providing information to? This article interested me because of the importance of the audience to all things media related.

Evaluate the article
Evaluate an Article

LEAD SECTION: The lead section seems to have multiple ideas to convey and not a concise clear idea regarding the topic. The first 3 paragraphs read like completely different ideas to be discussed in articles of their own.

While the lead section does provide a brief description of the audience it dissolves into multiple concepts across different mediums and theories.

CONTENT: First off I don’t believe the article addresses any of Wikipedia’s equity gaps nor does it address historically underrepresented populations.

The content of the article may be relevant but how it is formatted and how the author(s) go about discussing the topic is disjointed and confusing. Is this an article about what an audience is and does and examples of audiences or is this a discussion of audience theory? It is confusing at the least.

It is hard to tell what is missing or what is not up to date because there is not one specific idea being discussed in this article.

TONE AND BALANCE: The article seems to have a neutral point of view and make attempts to provide viewpoints and examples of minority groups. There are no biased claims or particular positions that I can ascertain from the article, and there is not attempt to be persuasive.

SOURCES AND REFERENCES: While the article is confusing and disjointed all the sources and references utilized within do support the information discussed in the article.

ORGANIZATION AND WRITING QUALITY: The article is not poorly written however it is not clear, concise, or well-organized. There seems to be a numerous concepts and ideas trying to be shared under one single word, Audience.

I did not immediately note any blaringly obvious spelling or grammatical errors.

IMAGES AND MEDIA: There are a few images showing visual examples of ideas or events listed in the text. They are not necessarily imperative to the content however they provide some sort of visual context to what is being discussed however many of them seem to be an afterthought and do not provide any real perspective to the topic of the article.

TALK PAGE DISCUSSION:  This article has been selected for improvement twice 30 Sept 2013 and again on 28 Oct 2019. There does not seem to be any current discussions or communications in general on the articles Talk Page. The most recent discussion was archived in 2017 and it was a citation update as well as an unanswered question on whether players of a game are actually audience members.