User:Raiyaka/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual communication

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 it because this subject is very important in today's day and age. It becomes more apparent in this society because we are always connected to media 24/7. My first impression of Visual communication is that it happens all around us and the concept will continue to grow as technology and symbols become more developed in society.

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.)

Evaluation:

LEAD SECTION


 * The leading sentence does provide a concise and clear description of the article's topic
 * The lead does not include brief description of ALL the article's major sections, but it does include visual communication types, the breakdown of elements and the types of its visual aids.
 * The lead does not have information that is not present in the article. However, it needs to be longer with an addiction such as different meanings of visual communication in different cultures besides western
 * The lead is fairly concise and could stand alone as a highlight should someone were to skim the article in a general sense.

CONTENT


 * The article's content is relevant to the topic. It discusses a lot of other elements as well in regards to how visual communication works in different settings.
 * The article is up to date and it is shown by the presences of the social media section and its latest reference being retrieved in this year (2023)
 * The content in the article are all relevant to the subject matter in a concise way. However, it needs more content
 * it does not deal with wikipedia's equity gaps or underrepresented populations or topics in regards to communications a s a whole

TONE AND BALANCE


 * The article is neutral due to it only focusing at Visual Communication as a medium of message transfer in different industries and social areas.
 * there appears to be no claims that are extremely biased.
 * The Economic and Cultural point of views needs longer sections as visual communications become an important aspect in those fields.
 * Only the cultural minority viewpoint seems to be roughly misrepresented, it should be better emphasized due to the impact that visual communication holds over that subject matter. examples and implications could be added
 * The article seems to have a middle stance in it just being the information teller of Visual communications

SOURCES AND REFRENCES


 * almost all of the facts presented by the article is backed up by a reliable source of information, with the exception of a few that retrieved the backings from a .com website.
 * The sources are thorough as it came from academic journals, trusted publishers and well-known institutions
 * The most dated source goes back to 2013, with the most relevant source coming from 2023.
 * The source authors that were presented were very diverse. one could argue that the background of these authors have a relevance towards a historically marginalized group but it does not apply in this article.
 * The economic's section had a .com website that can be easily replaced by a peer reviewed article talking about visual communications in economics and the like. There are some more sources that were weak supports and can easily be altered to become more credible.
 * The links work well in guiding the reader an explaining the jargon/terminologies.

ORGANIZATION AND WRITING QUALITY


 * the article is overall concise and easy to read.
 * there are no spelling or grammatical errors that really catch the eye of the reader, legible article
 * The article is broken down quite nicely with bolded sub headings and underlined main headings to focus on the bigger points of the article.

IMAGES AND MEDIA


 * The article only includes two images representing the topic and social media but none other that would help readers actually understand the topic that they were reading.
 * the images are captioned in a general sense that does not provide any further insight on the image itself. ]
 * The images that the article uses does not violate the copyright rule for Wikipedia
 * since there are only two images in the article, it lacks visual appeal.

TALK PAGE DISCUSSION


 * The talk page highlights the idea mentioned above: more content to the page to provide better understanding.
 * other things that are generally talked about is how this article is tackled because it has become a wiki assignment in other classes.
 * This wikipedia article touches the barebones concept of visual communication which is very different than the things being taught in class

OVERALL IMPRESSIONS


 * This article needs some more editing in terms of additional sources and sections.
 * The article's strength is its concise adn conversational nature in delivering a complex concept like visual communications
 * Improvement of the article could be made by adding more images, more cultural information, general examples, more sources and overall sections.
 * Overall The article is currently underdeveloped.