User:Popadock15/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social work

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article mainly because this is a field that I have found some sort of interest in upon graduation. This article matters to me because it tells me not only where social work began, but it also tells me how it progressed throughout other countries.

Evaluate the article
A good article on something I do find interest in.The lead and introduction provided a clear definition of the article's topic. The lead provides a description of the major sections of the article starting with the definition of the word, the history, how and when social work originated. and lastly it tells us that social work is not just only field but social work practice is often divided into micro-work, which involves working directly with individuals or small groups; and macro-work, which involves working with communities, and fostering change on a larger scale through social policy. The lead itself in my option gives a justifiable explanation of what social work is, when it originated, and even a couple of events that took place in the world that caused for a extreme need for social workers without having to read through the entire article for detail. The content is good and very length, but however for me it seems too "wordy" and story telling rather than presentation of facts. That may be how it's supposed to be, but for example in the history section. It starts with a few facts but then tells a story on that fact. I noticed it really in the India selection, there seemed to be more stories about how doctors or superintendents wanted to improve the hospitals and social work helped the communities rather than how or it originated there or how started it. Some of the examples of social work, I considered to be less relevant than the who, what, and why's.

This article is shown to be a neutral point of view. There isn't any persuasion of trying to get anyone to chose social work, but however very informative on how social work started and with many examples on what pushed the field to progress. Resources, links, and hyperlinks all seemed to work and direct you to either another website or another page from wikipedia. Upon clicking one of the external links, I was also able to obtain a helpful webpage that titled "What can I do with this Major?",which I'm sure can will help expand personal knowledge for some. The article provides a clear understanding of social work, and how it is driven to improve social change.

There are not informative pictures in this article, however I do believe you do not need media or images for this particular article to depict and help understand it's meaning. The photos are captioned to detail what they are showing, even with one providing a link to direct you to another wikipedia page involving that particular location. The talk page becomes helpful when deciding if the article is even worth the read, Majority of the comments included that the article was informative, a few to none of the people suggested any changes, however more people had questions. This article was nominated to be considered good article, however it did not met the criteria. It was included in two wikiprojects, one for social work and one for medicine.

Overall the article is a goof informative article that can give you a detailed run down of social work and how it started. The strengths would include the loads of information and examples that the article provides along with the sources and links to better explain what the article is saying. I think one way the article can be improved is if it detailed more of the people who help discover what we know as social work today. Overall I enjoyed actually reading a wikipedia article.