User:StephR29/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Art and World War II

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
i choose the article art and world war two because i'm very interested and invested in learning about art and ww2. it matter because ww2 had a significant effect on the world and it change everything very drastically especially art. my preliminary impression of the article was that the lead had to be worked on but as you continue the it has great information and viewpoints.

Evaluate the article
The introductory sentence of the lead does not give a clear description of the article page. The sentence doesn’t pull in the reader to want to continue reading the page it also provides little to no info on the overall topic of the page. The article has a very brief description of the article sections but not sections are mention in the lead. There is no information in the lead that is not in the article. lead is neither concise nor overly-detailed the article lacks a clear and comprehensive description of what the overall article is about. All the content in the article is related to the topic. All of the content on the page is up to date, information for the page keeps getting updated. All of the content proved is definitely relevant to the article but it misses in the information of today’s arts relation to world war 2. The tone and balance of the article are good but not great. The author begins with a neutral point of view but they are sometimes were the author states a personal or biased toward some subject. The author uses a lot of should and shouldn’t when informing on a topic. The article is overall written in an essay format. The article uses a good amount of sources and references mostly coming from books. It also uses a recent source for an event that happens in 1930-1940. The most recent source is a book from 2014. Most of the sources are written by different artists but the writer does use the same author four times. Although there is only one link in the references it does work. Next, the writing and organization of the article are easy to read and follow. The article has great sections that go well with explaining the main topic. There also appears to be no grammatical errors. A great strength the article has is its well-organized sections each one having great relation with the main topic. It’s easy to pinpoint the information of the section with the main topic. The writer uses seven imagine in the article to understand the topic. All the imagines are well captured and clearly described in the caption. Each image is placed in a very appealing way as they follow the way the section is written. It does lack more art of the topic. The talk page only has two discussions on it one of them being the writer of the article. Both discussions are about how the article needs to be written in some parts and the lack of information in some parts. The article is rated as a c-class and start class. It is also not part of any wikiprojects. When talking about the topic in class it is stated that ww2 had a very big impact on art and in the article, it states there are two main reasons for the cause. Although the article has some flaws the greatest strengths of the article the sub-sections. Each sub-section coincides with the effects that world war two had on the art world. The biggest thing the article needs to improve on is citations. The writer uses a lot of references in the write but it does not cite where the information is from. The article is underdeveloped. It’s a good start for the article it has a lot of information on the topic but it also lacks a lot of information. For instance the before and longevity effect that the war on the art culture. Furthermore, the article is a great start to the topic of art and world war two. It has great sub-sections with good information on the main topic and why they relate. Overall the article does need help with developing more information on the topic and how it is written.