User:Unlap98/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The War Game

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I thought it was the War Games film related to the course I am taking. However, it still seems to describe a relevant piece of history and therefore was interesting to me. My initial impression of the article is that the original writer is from a country other then the United states, as they use the date format of DD/MM/YYY as opposed to MM/DD/YYYY. They also seemed to follow different writing standards as students are taught in the USA, such as not using the Oxford comma and leaving out articles (of speech) in their article.

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.)

The lead includes a single sentence that briefly introduces the subject of the article from the get go. However, the rest of the lead seems to go straight into history rather than explaining a little more about the film itself. The body of the article seems to put significantly more emphasis on the "Synopsis" and "Style" of the film, leaving the remaining sections rather bare. The article does a good job of staying neutral in discussing the topic, taking only brief moments to explain what a viewer of the film would have been expected to feel while watching. The sources are more modern compared to the subject of interest, but do support the overall discussion within the article. The article does include a handful of what I think are grammatical errors, but that may be due to the writing convention followed by the country the original author is from. The article includes only one picture and that is of the promotional image of the film. The Talk Page is full of good discourse about ways to improve the article and what steps could be taken next. Overall, the article is of decent quality. It needs refinement and quite a bit of added material to supplement the underrepresented sections, but the intent is good and the baseline has been established.