User:Rosalina 15/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
San Zeno Altarpiece (Mantegna)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
My partner and I have chosen this article to evaluate because we found the altarpiece interesting/intriguing. Personally, I know how much altarpieces mean and how they have an impact in history especially religious history. However, I also wanted to get assigned this article because I want to learn more about how exactly this specific altarpiece impacted history or just the lives of the people in that specific time. As well as, because when I looked at the article there is very little information written about this topic and I want to expand on it so that others may also learn from it.

Evaluate the article
What caught my eye about the article right away was the length of information in it. It was shocking to see how little information had been written on this topic. As well as, how it has no references to what someone had previously written.

Some things right off the bat that I'm thinking of doing is make more headings to divide the information into main ideas and expand on them from there. For example, some headings would be about the impact, history, material, etc. of the altarpiece. I want to do this so as to make it easier for the reader to figure out where certain data and points will be made throughout the article.

Moreover, the tone of the article is very much monotone where it just spits fact after fact rather than stating a fact and expanding more on what that fact means and the impact/importance of it. It seems that the person did a very basic search of the topic and just combined it all together. However, the organization was not bad since they did break the information down into paragraphs but even than there was no heading to notify the reader what that portion of the article is going to be talking about.

The article's overall status is mediocre because it is not appealing to the reader in any form and because of the little information that it has and because there are no references listed. The article's strength is that it has solid data/facts that we can keep and just expand on a little more. In addition, the article can improve by adding more headings to make it appealing to the reader. As well as, adding in more of a narrative to what all this factual information actually means. Moreover, the article is underdeveloped due to the lack of information provided.