User:Undercoverecho/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Criminology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am a Criminology (and Criminal Justice) major and our class deals with crime.

Evaluate the article
lead section


 * 1) yes
 * 2) yes
 * no
 * 1) detailed

content


 * 1) yes
 * 2) yes
 * no
 * 1) yes (queer criminology

tone and balance


 * 1) yes
 * no
 * 1) no
 * 2) yes
 * no

sources and references


 * 1) yes
 * 2) yes
 * 3) yes
 * 4) yes
 * 5) no - almost entirely academic articles

organization and writing quality


 * 1) yes
 * no
 * 1) yes

images and media


 * 1) yes
 * 2) yes
 * 3) yes
 * 4) yes

talk page discussion


 * 1) discussions on which countries/continents should get credit (America vs. European countries), discussion on inclusion of statistics, discussion on whether to include nature v. nurture theories
 * 2) it is rated B-class, a level-4 vital article. it has been proposed for a wikiproject
 * 3) this article appears to be among the most important of articles, discussion is quite serious, but the most major conversations took place in the mid2000s, meaning that the page has likely been set in stone for a while.

overall impressions


 * 1) level-4 vital article, extremely strong
 * 2) breaks down most popular/influential schools of thought
 * 3) maybe more explanation of modern state of criminology in conclusion, most popular theories/schools of thought paving way toward future
 * 4) i would say it is well-developed and complete