User:Sashaalexa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Maat

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article because I got interested in the concept of Maat which we were reading about in class. In my opinion it correlates with the modern times in a few aspects that is the reason I find it interesting to work on this article.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

This section includes the introductory sentence which provides the concise information about the concept.

The lead includes a brief description of all sections of the article. The lead does not include the information that the article contains.

Content:

The article's content is relevant to the topic and it address the topic related to history. Although there is some information that is missing in the article: for instance, some dates and information about the history of the concept.

Tone and balance:

The article has a neutral tone and there is no particular position. I think that the viewpoint about the Goddess is underrepresented because there is no information about her husband who is an important figure as he was the god who invented writing.

There is no attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another.

Sources and References:

The sources reflect the available literature on the topic and most of them are current.

The sources are written by a diverse spectrum of authors.

I think this article is missing a good source which we are reading in class "Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks"

Some of the links that I checked work.

Organization and writing quality:

The article is overall well-written and easy to read but the headings have different style which makes it harder to capture the information and, thus, it not well-organized.

I did not notice any grammatical or spelling errors.

Images and Media:

The article includes images that enhance understanding of the topic, but not all of them adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations.

Some of the images are not laid out in a visually appealing way. They are too small to notice the details.

Talk page discussion:

The talk page is not very active. There are a lot of talks that are not up-to-date and most of them are relevant to the discussion how to improve the article.

This article is a part of a WikiProject Ancient Egypt.

Overall impressions:

The article seems useful because it contains important information about the concept, but this article needs some improvement. For instance, the history section seems very short and not very informative so I would like to improve it. The article does not seem complete, thus, it needs some developments. For instance, the information about scribes does not informative so this section should be developed as well as the history section.

Comments from Dr. V
hello - Thank you for your work evaluating this article. This would be a good article to work on for our main Wikipedia project and you have already identified a number of places for improvement.

+Improving/developing the history section, especially in regards to information about scribes +Organization of headings and subheadings +Addition of information from the essay we read for class "It All Comes Down to Maat" +Revision of the lead so that it forecasts the major content of the article

There are a few other students interested in working on this article, so I would suggest that you all have a common sandbox page to draft your additions. Please do that here: User:Sashaalexa/Maat

DarthVetter (talk) 16:58, 10 February 2021 (UTC)