User:Wxgirl24/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Visual Communication

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've been working (as a hobby and in courses) in graphic design and I genuinely enjoy all the little details that go into creating content that are appealing to the eye. Visual communication is important on several levels; using different colors to entice certain emotions to deciding to use billboards or stick to online advertisements. My two main initial thoughts were, "this is very through" and "for an article on visual communication there is few visual aids."

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.)

Lead Section


 * Overall, this section is looking good. The beginning sentence does a good job at encompassing what visual communication is all about.
 * Within the rest of the two short paragraphs, it talks about a few different areas of visual communication that are further expanded upon later in the article.
 * The length of this section is just right for its content.

Content

Tone and Balance
 * The content could be updated specifically in the social media section. However, this is hard to do with new platforms coming out almost every month.
 * There are some areas that could have been expanded upon but this is a good baseline for each subtopic.
 * The article could have gone more into different cultures and how they use visual communication.


 * The tone and balance are well-rounded throughout the whole article. The article sticks to give just the facts and maintains a neutral viewpoint.

Sources and References


 * While the article does have an extensive references section, a few to the links do not work and at the beginning for the article Wikipedia as an alert about the sources.

Organization and Writing Quality


 * The article was very easy to read through. The topic explanations follow by a bulleted list of subtopic explanation was particular useful when trying to get well-rounded idea of all the little details that go into visual communication.

Images and Media


 * There is only two images within the whole article. One of which was used to show social media logos.
 * For the visual communication article, there should be more visual aids that help turn the topics written (text) about into images for visual learners to understand.
 * All the images used seems to follow copyright regulations.

Talk Page Discussion


 * There is the very long talk page discussion. A main area to note is the amount of times this article has been used in course assignments, which is quite a lot.
 * As for WikiProjects, this article is in three: Graphic Design, Media, and Systems.

Overall Impressions


 * Overall, I think that article did a good job at getting the initial ideas of visual communication together but also allows room for the article to grow as world develops.
 * Some strengths are the organization and initial detail the article goes into. Any improvements can be easily put into these sections.
 * For weaknesses, the article could have more images.
 * From a completeness standpoint I would say the article is moderately developed.