User:Tswolfestudent/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Fable

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Fables fall under the English literature category of which I am currently majoring in. These stories are crucial pieces of our cultural history across the globe that provides readers important information on societal norms and consequences from their respective eras. This article was well written with several points of view and numerous cited sources of information that lead me to believe this article is unbiased and neutral.

Evaluate the article
This Wikipedia page gives a concise description of the topic with links to relevant topics for readers to browse. The important words are bolded, and the entire first opening paragraph give thorough objectives to the content that will be discussed in the article. There is one sentence in the beginning about a bible mistranslating the word "myth" with "fable" that I don't think fits in that section; I would move that sentence to its relevant subsection as it doesn't pertain to the main definition of the word and feels out of place.

There is a subsection listing all the relevant historical fables that are listed by area of the globe. The information is kept up to date with a split between historical and modern versions of fables. There are so many fables that editors of this page had to list the major ones for each region and then give a list of the rest in a clean, organized list with clickable links for the reader to find the other fables on their own time. The section about Africa's fables was lacking traceable information with a lack of links comparatively to the rest of the sections in its category. This section needs more sources, and the reason why is because the language used in this section is much vaguer compared to the other nations mentioned. Aside from this, the rest of the article is thorough and avoids using vague or opinion-based suggestions.

This article page unfortunately has some issues with the sources it uses for its information. Most of the issues stem from the more modern sources of fables, several of which linked to news articles or online magazines that tend to run with biased information. I could not even access some of the links notably the ones from India's modern fables and a few from Germany--I'm not entirely sure if this was due to censorship from my internet provider/country or the links themselves were broken. My internet connection was stable and would open most of the other links that were older bits of information sources but struggled opening the newer sources. That being said, there was a diverse selection of references provided at the bottom of the page ranging in time periods and source types (books, online, images, etc). The books provided in this section were easy to access and gave further information relating to the topic with a mix of modern fabulists and historical fabulists both.

The article is well written with no obvious grammatical errors and is easy to follow along with the information provided in organized subsections. The end of the article provides a group of portraits and images of previous fabulists (the term used for authors who write fables). The images are dated and are free-source with no apparent copyright due to their age. The images are laid out in a satisfying manner and have links provided under every image.

This article is an active part of ongoing Wikipedia projects notably: novels, folklore, literature, and children's literature. The "Talk" section of this article shows an active page full of corrections and editors calling attention to missing or incorrect information. Some of the editors even pointed out the same exact section I found the most fault with; the section about African fables was unsourced and the language used in its current state is conjecture at best. Some users have also removed and flagged the more recent fabulists off of this page because they are not yet deemed "notable" as they are too new. It is clear this page has its active editors working behind the scenes to correct the issues mentioned.

Overall, this article is well written with a large list of linked Wikipedia pages, books, and outside material. There was one section that needs to be corrected; if I were to edit this page, I would start with the African fables and provide references to a few books I have in mind that would provide clarity to this section. As is, this page needs to be edited and is missing information in some sections, but the rest of the article seems to have clear information. That is why I would state this page is under-developed; a section that big is missing crucial information when compared to the rest of the areas mentioned in this section.