User:Olivia.gehrke/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Criminology

Criminology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I have always been interested in to learn more about the topic as I have watched several crime shows. This article matters so that people can understand and learn about criminal history. I feel that it is important for people to know about the different levels of crime and the actions that could end up in each of those levels. Right away, I can see that this article is going to have a lot of information in it that will help me evaluate this article.

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.)

Lead section:

- Section does a good job of explaining what criminology is and talking about what information is going to be in the rest of the article.

- Gives examples to better depict criminology.

- Uses concise language to give background of criminology.

Content:

- Explains how the term criminology came to be and gives good examples from reliable sources to explain the meaning.

- Uses current examples and data to support information in the article.

- Explains different criminal behavior and points out the different punishments for criminal behavior.

- Gives good background info.

- Some examples are a little too wordy.

Tone and Balance:

- Uses several different sources from different people to stay neutral throughout the article.

- Does a good job of not over explaining or over representing.

- Probably could of touched on some topics a little more.

- Does not show any bias.

Sources and References:

- Does a good job of giving credit to all sources that information was pulled from.

- Doesn't directly quote from anyone else work, explains in their own words and reflects on how it relates to criminology.

Organization and writing quality:

- Can clearly tell when a topic is ending and when a new one is starting.

- No spelling or grammar errors from what I could see.

- Nice clear sections describing the major points of the article.

Images and Media:

- Uses images to help depict or explain a term used better, also used to identify the people that is talked about in the article.

- Linked definitions of some of the terms used if not explained in the article.

- Each image added is captioned or comes with a description.

Talk page discussion:

- One person mentioned that the article should have mentioned a more modern document on how genetics can affect criminal behavior or criminal tendencies.

- This article is a part of WikiProjects crime, psychology, and sociology.

- Some people in the discussion will ask for clarification on certain terms and how criminology affects things not mentioned in the article.

Overall Impressions:

- One of the articles main strengths was providing and explaining background in for in terms of the topic of criminology.

- I would say that this article is pretty well-developed.

- Should think about being more concise with the explanations.