User:TheWittyOwls/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual communication - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it directly ties into the career path I am pursuing, and I believe it to be necessary information to get 100% right.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Initially, the page addressing that this article is unverified and needs additional citations. The overview doesn't summarize the article, but instead a modge podge of what visual communication relies on and sentences that are inconsistent on subject matter. The important figures section is overly simplified and contains only two figures without mentioning how they contributed to the idea. The image analysis and visual aid sections are composed of examples of what the two sections are representative of. There is a large section which explains the utilization of visual communication in social media, politics, culture, economics, and science and medicine via functions. What stuck out to me is that the politics column is the most detailed and draws heavily from one source cited several times. There is little to no representation of marginal groups. There is also very little backing into historical significance which plays a big part in how visual communications evolved. It is ranked a level 5 start class page related to three WikiProjects, (Graphic Design, Media, and Systems). The talk page discusses the need for more comprehensible list of the types of visual communications, also the need for more reliable sources.