User:RPshiesty/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Agriculture in India

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it gives a broad overview of my research paper topic and provides sources that I can use to go into more depth for my research.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: The article provides a brief intro to the history of agriculture in India, providing information of agricultural outputs, amount of people employed by agriculture, and overall economic data on the agriculture industry. All the info in the lead section is present in the article after.

Content: The content in the article is all relevant to the topic. The subheadings are 'Definition of farmer', 'Overview', 'History', 'Irrigation', 'Output', 'Agriculture based cooperatives', 'Problems', 'Initiatives', and 'Maps'.The content is all fairly up to date as well.

Tone and balance: The tone is quite neutral and I do not feel like the authors of the article were trying to sway in one direction. There are political topics brought up but they are mentioned in a neutral manner.

Sources and references: All of the information is thoroughly cited throughout the paper. The sources are all fairly recent, and most of the sources were written within the past ten years. There sources are from a wide range of authors and from a glance they seem to be credible writers. The handful of links that I checked do seem to work.

Organization and writing quality: The article is definitely well written, and there are no grammartical errors. It is broken down into easy to read sections based on topic.

Images and Media: There are many photos that complement each topic and also includes graphs and maps in order to visualize data and locations. The images are all laid out in an appealing way.

Talk page discussion: Since most of the articles content is sort of set in place and won't change because a lot of it history and won't really change with time a lot of the talk page is talking about small updates and changing little things like photos and such.

Overall impressions: Overall the status of the article is positive and there isn't really anything wrong with the article. It's really well developed and is thorough.