User:Sandrejack/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Aesthetics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I enjoy art and have always been interested in the concept of aesthetics. This matters to me so that I am able to widen my knowledge around art and can provide accurate information when talking about it. I did not know that this derived from a branch of Philosophy but on first glance of the article it is clear that Philosophy is a major part of the history of aesthetics.

Evaluate the article
It appears that most of the topics in this article are clear and representative of the main topic. The lead sentence is clear and a general idea of what aesthetics are, it is not overly complicated or full of unnecessary information. The content of this article is relevant to the topic and how the topic relates to certain areas of life. Although there have been revisions done as recently as 1/6/24, there does not appear to be any references or sources that are dated after 2022. I cannot see any noticeable equity gaps, mentions of African art to Greek history are spread throughout the article. The article appears to be in a neutral tone. The two sources that are listed seem relatively short and less appealing than the list of references. The references cover a wider range of information and majority of the links lead to professional looking sites or books. Not all of these sources and references are current but they appeal to the sections and topics that are mentioned throughout. The overall quality of this article seems well-written and it is very clear and the layout of the main topics are well organized. There are only three images placed throughout the article. These could be displayed better, bigger, and with a better caption to present the relation to the section it is connected to. Throughout the 'Talk Page' it was clear that there were disagreements around the initial image at the top of the article. There was a lot of back and forth about the type of image that should be used to best represent the topic. This conversation was in 2022 and there has been no addition to it since then. This is rated a C-class article and is an interest to three WikiProjects: Philosophy: Aesthetics, Religion, and Visual Art.

I would say the article has what appears to be a large amount of important facts and information around many sections of aesthetics and related concepts. Although, I would argue that there should be more images to represent certain topics, better explanation on how they relate to the current concept, and possibly removing some of the information. For an article about a subsection of art, there should be more than three images throughout the whole article. I feel that the article was almost overcrowded by the different sections, there could be a separate article relating aesthetics to other concepts such as science, psychoanalysis, math, computational approaches, etc that are mentioned in the second half of the article. For someone looking to learn about aesthetics it may deter them from reading the whole article or overwhelm them from the start.