User:Pumpkinsinthesea1903/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cellini Salt Cellar

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose the Cellini Salt cellar article in order to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying meanings of the artistic elements. This matters as it is not only a learning experience for me, but I get to aid others in learning new information the work. My preliminary impression of the article was that it wasn't bad. The article itself contains the foundational elements of the work, although I would like to touch on more aspects such as the provenance and the artistic description/meaning behind the work. I would also like to reformat the work in order to make it more cohesive.

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:

The lead of this article is relatively strong in terms of identifying the topic, although it is lacking in other areas that I plan to improve. For instance, the lead is not formally structured. Going forward I would like to not only identify the topic (Salt Cellar) itself, but also Identify other elements of the work I will include in the article going forward, as this is something the article is currently lacking. In terms of the current structure of the article, it's unclear only encompassing a lead section and a section about theft. Due to this, the lead is overly detailed in some areas, including information that deserves its own section. As a result, I intend to break up this section, preserving some of the information presented in the lead while relocating others.

Content:

As mentioned earlier, my article is made up of two subsections including, the lead and a section regarding theft and recovery. As a result, I plan on restructuring the majority of the article by reframing and reintroducing new subsections. For instance, along with the lead section, I plan on incorporating a description and interpretation section, a history and dating section that will encompass the theft and recovery section already included, as well as provenance section. All these sections will serve a specific purpose, the lead being to introduce, the description being to artistically explain the work, the history (self explanatory), and a section specifically dedicated to the patrons of the work. Tone and Balance:

One strong point of the article is that all the information included so far remains a neutral tone, although the balance of the work is off. There is not enough emphasis on the important aspects of the work and to much importance on other impartial aspects in my opinion. For instance their is an entire section encompassing theft, but not an in detail artistic description of the work. I hope to correct the balance of the work, by restructuring the article, thus giving more of a spotlight to the crucial information.

Sources and References:

The only issue I have encountered with the references, regarding the article is located at the end of paragraph one, as the sentence presented doesn't provide a citation. Going forward if I am unable to find the source related to this information I will take it out and replace it with something more credible. Although there is this one issue I tested out the other links mentioned and they all seem to work fine. I am excited to add more making this a more scholarly article as my article only has a few.Organization and Writing Quality:

The organization specifically is one of the weakest points of the article. The main issue regarding the article is that it lacks structure and overall organization. I have detailed how I plan to fix this issue under the content analysis I completed above. In terms of the writing quality, there is nothing that overtly stood out and caught my attention, although I do see myself needing to rephrase of few sentences in the future.

Images and Media:

Although I would like to include more images related to the work, the ones presented now are properly captioned and add to the audiences overall understanding of the work. The two images presented do not violate wiki copyright, although in terms of placement I may want to reformat their location later on when I add more related images.

Talk Page:

In my talk page I see a lot of editors correcting the misidentified information presented in the article. Although the main topic of conversation seems to be regarding the info box as a lot of people have had trouble identifying its usefulness to the article as a whole. This article is rated as a start-class article and is part of the WikiProject visual arts scope. Because of this works reference to Greek Mythology a lot of what is resented in the talk page has to do with that, which is something we haven't yet discussed in lecture.

Overall Impression:

Although this article has started string, I feel as though it is underdeveloped and in need of major reshaping. The biggest weakness is the lack of organization and structure presented in the article. Although, the strongest portion of the article is that the information included provides a strong foundation of information to build upon. In terms of the completeness of the article it is very bare and incomplete.