User:Turny1516/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Scottish Sword Dances

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because sword dances are my favourite dances to do, and i find the stories behind them fascinating. the sword dance is a vital part of Scottish dance history and war history, as well as one of the most important and recognizable highland dances one can learn. This article isn't too bad, but I definitely have a few ideas to help improve it.

Evaluate the article
This articles lead paragraph doesn't do much to cover what the article is about, and seems to just get into the information instead of summarizing it. I feel as though the title should have capitalization. I feel like this article could do a better job explaining what a sword dance looks like, and could've gone further in depth about the different stories surrounding the sword dance, since there are many different ones based off of clan, location and other factors. I definitely feel like they could've used a picture of Mary Queen of Scots instead of the Spanish king, or even a more modern picture of dancers mid sword dance. Its odd that that part of the article went more in depth than the part describing the sword dance and why it is done. there are multiple tags of "clarification needed" or "citation needed" so that certainly needs some work. the sources used are, as far as I can tell, strong but the article needs more. There isn't really any conversation going on in the talk page, which is a little disappointing.

Over-all the article isn't bad, but I feel like it could've covered more relevant information to the topic of sword dances.