User:RNNewman1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The novel The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton went on sale for a short while on Audible, and I decided to listen to it. Because I can not stop thinking about the story, I thought it would be a good page to evaluate. When I checked the page I also found that there was not a large abundance of information.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

The lead section of the wiki page was filled with some very good information. This section outline the fame of the book; therefore accomplishments of the author. This section mentioned the genre of the novel through reviews from magazines. Though all of the information in this section seemed factual, the statements of the reviews created a book cover review of the book; this in turn made the genre and fundamental information on the book muddled. This section needed to highlight the genre/type of book that was being reviewed.

Content

The main content and subtitles of the wiki page were: Awards, Characters, Reception, Title, and Adaption. This, again, focuses a lot of energy of the status of the book. It does not mention much of the genre or themes of the novel. Though plots/summaries of murder mysteries should be minimal, as to not spoil the book, there is no main concept or analysis given. The author of this wiki page just cites that the book is a "'... fascinating and bewildering murder-mystery [that] is impossible to summarise'".

Lastly, some categories (Reception, Title and Adaption) have very less information within them.

Tone and Balance

The tone of the post was focused on the fame of the novel. The writer did not indicate whether or not they had even read the book. The information given was almost purely reviews from others. The reviews posted, were of course, slanted in favour of the book. Giving the feeling of fame and action from the story. Though the author of the page seemed neutral, the reviews used in the page were not. The reviews strongly praised the book.

Sources and References

This page seems to have a decent amount of refences (from book reviews, Netflix sources, and other reliable book sources).

The page author used the website https://www.goodreads.com/; which I use for my personal reading. Though GoodReads contains helpful information on the book (and is a great platform for connect with the authors), the site can have postings from anyone and the information could be unreliable.

Organization and Writing Quality

I found little to no problem with the writing quality, but I would change the organization of the lead section (so that information on the book is more easy to find instead of muddling the genre and plots with reviews). Any grammatically errors occurred because of the incorporation of reviews and other quotations.

Images and Media

The article included two main photos, one of which had the cover of UK version of the book titled The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hard Castle and the other had the cover of the US version of the book titled The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It shows the differences between the publications of the same book. I think that the images are very suitable.

Talk Page Discussion

There are no entries in the talk page discussion, but there was a portal for Novels that had a large amount of discussion about very different novels.

Overall Impression

The review was not bad but it lacked any depth. The book itself is becoming more well-known (through the promotions of Netflix and Audible), but the page's author just used the reviews from others (and the character list from the beginning of the novel) in the post. If I was looking into books to read or wanted any information on the story in the book, this post would not be helpful.