User:Xuan222/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Chinese language

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am a native speaker of Chinese and a linguistics-major student at the same time. So I am familiar with this language and want to learn some useful information from wikipedia.

Evaluate the article

 * Lead section: The lead is well written but too bulky. It puts too much emphasis on history and variety, but most of the content is elaborated in the following context or can be easily found in the right column.
 * Content: The article's content is relevant to the topic but not no smuch up-to-date content is involved.
 * Tone and Balance: The article holds a neutral point of view. I didn't see a lot of subjuective opinions.
 * Sources and Reference: Resources mainly come from papers and a variety of academic articles whereas a few are newspaper webpages. Sources are enough and thorough.
 * Images and Medias: For images, all pictures are well-captioned. One exception is an image fall under section "varieties", captioned "proportions of first-language speakers. Simiar colors are used in the pie chart to illustrate different parts, which adds more difficulties for readers. It worth to be mentioned that images are laid in a visually appealing way, including tables, charts, maps and photos.
 * Overall impressions: the article is in a neutral tone and pretty rigorous. I think this artical is well-developed, but lack some sections. For example, for the grammar part that intersts me most, this part largely overlaps with section "phonology" and "vocabulary". It includes insufficient information.