User:Vinhtct/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

History of science

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.)

My reasoning for choosing this article was that this class covers only one of the many periods of advancements in science, the Renaissance period. This article matters as it covers the evolution of science as a whole starting from as early as 3000 to 1200 BCE to the present. My preliminary reaction was that this article is very detailed in that it presents the most impactful discoveries of each age of advancement in science.

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.)

Evaluating content:

Everything in the article was relevant to the article topic and there was nothing that distracted me from what was being presented. I don't believe that any of the information are out of date as it is history, though some discoveries may have been proven wrong or improved on, it does not change the fact that it help sparked more advancements in science. I believe that there may be an underrepresentation to historically marginalized populations as most of the significant discoveries and advancements from the Renaissance period to now are from the European continent.

Evaluating tone:

I believe that this article is very neutral as it is only presenting facts and history, there are no hidden agendas or tones in the tone of this article. Evaluating sources:

Evaluating sources:

The links for the few citations that I've checked worked and the source does support the claims in the article. Each fact referenced seems to be appropriate and reliable that came from academic sources such as scholarly articles and research papers that do not seem to be biased. From a glance, the sources appears to be coming from a wide array of authors from different origins and reliable publications. The Talk Page:

The Talk Page:

The conversations going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic are constructive, coming from those who want to improve and edit parts of this article to make it more credible and correct. This article is rated as a C-class and a part of multiple WikiProjects such as, WikiProject History of Science, WikiProject Sociology, WikiProject History, and WikiProject Philosophy/Science. Wikipedia discusses this topic as a whole, while we, as a class, discuss this topic in one specific era in the evolution of science in detail.