User:RCamp98/Evaluate an Article

Which articles are you evaluating?
1) France in the American Revolutionary War

2) Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War

3) Hessian (soldier)

Why you have chosen these articles to evaluate?
1) Although this article does contain a lot of already written content, the article is still listed as a start-class level article. This article is also a part of a larger subject that interests me, that being the American Revolutionary War.

2) This article is a start-class ranked article pertaining to the American Revolutionary War. It is also a topic within this subject that I believe does not get enough attention

3) This is a c-class article, so although it may not need as much editing as other potential articles, I feel as if the content of this article does not get enough attention

Evaluate these articles
1) France in the American Revolutionary War: The lead section of this article presents the timeline and period in which French forces allied themselves with the Continental Army. However, the lead section does not, in my opinion, introduce the topic of discussion as clearly and efficiently as it could. Also, the lead could also be composed better in regards to introducing the remaining topics of the article. The lead may also be too detailed, focusing on pure content based information rather than introducing the topic and transitioning into the upcoming content headers. The overall content of the article is good in regards to having plentiful information about the subject in question. There did not seem to be any missing content or out of date content that I could immediately see. The source material for this subject appears to be plentiful in quantity, which include an array of various authors. However, I did notice that there appears to be only one singular primary source that was used in the writing of the article; so more primary source material could benefit the content of the article.I did not notice any spelling or grammar errors present in the article during my initial reading. I also believe that the article is adequately composed in terms of its structure. The article also comes off as well written and is not a difficult or overly complicated read. All images present are captioned nicely and add to the content in which they are positioned with. In the talk area of the article, there appears to be a lot of back and forth discussion on improvements and edits of the article from a variety of people. This article is ranked as a start-class article. I believe that the man strength of the article is the way it is organized and composed, with proper sections of content with well-written textual analysis present in each section of the article. I believe that the article can be improved by including more primary source material to better support the pre-existing written work of the article. I also believe that the lead section could be formatted differently as to more properly introduce the topics that will be discussed later on in the article.

2) Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War: The lead of this article does introduce the topic in question, however, it also appears to be fairly small in size in comparison to other articles in the similar subject field. The content of the article is well written and well detailed, with multiple header sections organizing the thoughts of the article quite concisely. The only thing I have against this is that there is so many different sections of the article that some of them have significantly less content than other sections. I did not notice any content necessarily missing from this article, but I believe that certain topics within the article could use more analysis and representation to ensure that all possible content of the subject matter is fairly represented in the article. There was a large amount of source material present in the references section at the bottom of the article from multiple authors. Through my initial read through of the article, I did not notice any spelling or grammar errors present. This article also does not come off as a tough or uneasy read. There are plenty of pictures present in the article, however, the captions for these pictures could be slightly more detailed and could also be formatted better, possibly by positioning them in correspondence to the written content that they are related to. When looking at the talk section of the article, there appeared to be no activity or discussion whatsoever regarding the article and its content. This article is a start-class ranked article. I believe the strength of this article is that it has an already large amount of references used in the research of the subject. I also believe that the content and imagery included in the article is good as well. In terms of edits I would make would primarily focus on reorganizing and reformatting the article such as moving around images to better positions as well as providing the images with slightly more detailed captions.

3) Hessian (soldier): The lead section of this article is quite lengthy, however, I do believe that it properly introduces the content laid out within the article. The section does transition well into the ensuing headers of content in the article. In regards to article content, there is a bountiful amount of content present within the article page that thoroughly covers the subject material. Along with this large amount of content is a large amount of sources from a multitude of authors, both primary and secondary sources are used abundantly in the article throughout. I also did not notice any spelling or grammatical errors when examining the article. The layout of the article, however, could possibly be an issue, in my opinion. There are not too many headers present within the article which makes the article itself a harder read in comparison to others. There are plenty of images present within the article that are very well captioned as well as nicely positioned next to corresponding sections of the article. The talk section of the article was very much populated with various members of the Wikipedia community discussing possible edits and additions to the article. This article is a c-class ranked article and is deemed as a mid-importance article. The strengths of this article are that there is plenty of well-written content about the subject matter as well as a large amount of source material being used to support the written work. The imagery present in the article is also well positioned and nicely captioned. The primary edit I would be making would be to better organize the content of the article into more well articulated sections to ensure that certain sections of the article do not excessively drag on more than needed.