User:Sydnka/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Raven Cycle

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because having read the series numerous times over and knowing some insight into the making of the book series, the article gabbed my attention, and is important to evaluate for exposure for the series and author. I did notice that the article is lacking a few key features that I want to make note of. The synopsis of each book is detailed enough to give the reader a superficial understanding of the series, but the last book in the series, The Raven King, is not as detailed and seems to be rushed. It would seem better off to keep all summaries just as short and to not have an uneven description of summaries.

Evaluate the article
The lead section has a good intro and sets up the reader to explore the article coherently. There is no unneeded information on the page, but where there are the books in the series are summarised, the information is quite heavy. An idea for improvement, would be to keep the plot points simple and not so detailed (as each book also have their own Wikipedia page), but to detail key terms that are foreign to people who are unfamiliar with the series. Such words words would include: Henrietta, the fictional town set in Virginia (that is not disclosed in the article), the ley lines that are essential to the series, (even linking a page to the ley lines would suffice), and Ronan’s night terrors that are only briefly described in the summary of The Dream Thieves (the second book in the series).

However, each section of the article is neatly organised, easy to recognise, and read through despite the heavy context and nature of the series. Due to Maggie Steifvater’s educational history, as being a History major, a lot of what is talked about in the books is drawn from Welsh legends that can be hyperlinked for more context that may be too difficult or dense to describe concisely when the focus should be on the series.