User:Teague Sloane/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Lux (soap)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Because it could be used for one of my proposed research project.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section


 * The introductory sentence for this article is very abstract, followed by a second sentence that does provide some context but still no insight into the article content.
 * The remainder of the lead does nothing to outline the content of the article and brings up more about the company itself like the worth and less about the title Lux soap.

Content


 * The content of the article is relevant to the article
 * The content is limited to limited snapshots in time and address none of the social issues and is limited on anything but very limited snapshots in time.
 * Lots of information on the company and not the soap despite some of the older advertisements used as images on the page

Tone and Balance


 * The entire article seems to be written by someone biased towards Lux or used very limited resources to get their information
 * There are no viewpoints of the many documented racist and sexist campaigns put on by Lux, like many of the beauty products of that period
 * The article seems to ensure that Lux is painted in a positive light

Sources and References


 * There is very limited sources and both sources come directly from the products company making it likely biased
 * The second source doesn't link to anything
 * There is no citation throughout the article leaving everything in the article in question

Organization and Writing Quality


 * For the limited content the article is organized chronologically and contains incomplete and run on sentences
 * more of bullet format than article

Images and Media


 * There are some good historical advertisements on the page but there is no use of them in the article itself
 * I am unsure if the images violate the Wikipedia Copyright policies but it seems that at least one is in question based on the talk page

Talk Page Discussions


 * There is discussions on the limited content of this article and the lack of sources
 * There is also a discussion on the copyright violations of at least one of the images

Overall Impressions


 * This article is lacking in every category, and is in need of massive amounts of information. There are fundamental flaws due to the lack of citations in the article, which calls the validity of the information into question.  The fact that the products website and parent company were the only sources for the article also raises red flags to the bias of the information.  The best way to fix the article would be to start almost completely over since everything must be verified by sources and cited anyways.