User:Sleepdealer/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Ellen Prince
 * I chose this article because it looked very minimally edited and had room for improvement.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * The lead does not provide a clear overview of the subject other than her date of birth and her profession.
 * The lead does not include ant information about the article's major sections.
 * The lead contains unnecessary information about leap years.
 * The lead's description of the subject's birthday is overly detailed.

Lead evaluation
The lead needs to be developed to include a better summary of the main topics that are presented in the article. It needs to be revised to be more focused on her career rather than her date of birth.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * The content is relevant to the subject. It talks about her career and her relevancy to the field of Linguistics.
 * The content is up to date.
 * The article could go more in depth into her research and publications.

Content evaluation
Though the content is relevant and up to date, it is sparse and does not present a thorough view of Ellen Prince and her work in the field of Linguistics.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * The article is neutral.
 * None of the claims appear to be heavily biased.
 * Not much is written about her early life and work as a professor compared to her research work.
 * The article does not attempt to persuade to reader towards any positions.

Tone and balance evaluation
Though the article is neutral in tone, it is more thorough in its portrayal of the subjects research than other aspects of her life and work.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * All of the facts are reliably sourced.
 * The sources are thorough
 * The sources are current
 * The links work.

Sources and references evaluation
All of the information in the article is well cited with sources that are reliable.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Many sentences of the article do not flow well together resulting in it being difficult to follow.
 * There are not any spelling or grammatical errors.
 * The article is not well organized. It is not broken down into any sections and it is difficult to located relevant topics.

Organization evaluation
The article is poorly organized. The topics are not broken down into different labeled sections.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * The article does not include any images.

Images and media evaluation
The article could use images to compliment the content in the article.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * Users are discussing about areas the article that need to be developed. These include: information about her research, information about her published articles, and her death.
 * The article is rated Start-Class. It is part of the WikiProject Biography and WikiProject Women.

Talk page evaluation
The talk page only has a few users posing questions about the article, but the questions still offer a good method to investigate ways to improve the article.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * The article is underdeveloped and has a lot of room for improvement.
 * One of the articles strengths is that is not biased and every claim is sourced.
 * The article can be organized more efficiently and topics can be gone into more detail.
 * The article is poorly developed

Overall evaluation
The article is underdeveloped and poorly organized, but it has the framework for the content to be expanded on and enhanced.

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