User:Sodonn12/Evaluate an Article

= Evaluating an Article =

= Which article are you evaluating? =

Common law

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is the foundation of the legal system and an important topic for all law students. Without an understanding of Common Law, it is difficult to see where the legal system we use today came from. My impression of the article is that it is very detailed and includes many resources that are strong.

Content
Everything in the article was relevant to the topic. One thing that was a little distracting was the length of Judge Cardozo's opinion that was cited in the article. I thought a summary could have sufficed. All information was up to date but I noticed the article that was used to say that one third of the world still uses a common law system was from 2016. I could not find anything to suggest that number has changed but it might be time to update that source. I thought that more could have been included to describe Pakistan's common law system. There is only one sentence on it and I wanted more information on that.

Tone
The article does a good job of remaining neutral. It presents facts in an unbiased way. There are no opinions in this article as it is an overview of the common law system. It does not present facts that say it is a bad system or a good one. It simply describes what a common law system is and the history behind the system.

Evaluating Sources
The sources work and they support the articles contentions. Most are scholarly articles and come from law reviews or other journals. Each fact is supported by a citation and there are no blatant uses of suspect sources. Some caselaw is cited and cited properly. There are a lot of uses of Black's Law Dictionary but aside from that there are not too many continuous uses of the same source.

Talk Page
Now take a look at how others are talking about this article on the talk page. There are a few conversations in this article that involve Islamic Law, Wrongful Death, and distinctions between common law and english common law. The article is a level 4 vital article and has been rated as B class. There are 4 WikiProjects involving this article: Law, England, History, and Philosophy/Social and Political.