User:Xzones15/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Post-hardcore

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article because post-hardcore music is one of my favorite music genres. I've read through the article a few times before and remembered it was interesting.

Evaluate the article
Straight out of the gate, the introductory sentence describes what post-hardcore music is. The lead paragraph gives a brief description of the main points of this article from the history of post-hardcore to the characteristics of the genre to important artists and onwards. Also, the lead paragraph is concise and all the information mentioned appears in the later paragraphs.

All of the contents in the article is relevant to the topic. The article could be a use an update to cover post-hardcore music after 2016. Besides this, there isn't any content that is missing or unnecessary. Sadly, this article does not talk mention many post-hardcore bands outside of the U.S. or talk about any of the women or other minorities in post-hardcore.

The article maintains a neutral point of view throughout the article and seem heavily-biased to any position. In this article, there are also no viewpoints under or overrepresented. Also, there isn't any fringe viewpoints to really address. Lastly, the article does not try to persuade the reader to any position.

Since this topic is the history of a particular music genre, its sources are pretty good as it contains a mix of books on punk rock, articles from Billboard, NYT, and Pop Matters, and a lot of information from the music database AllMusic. The sources are primarily from 2011, so they could be more up to date and the the sources are not written by a diverse spectrum of authors. Honestly, there could have been some better sources, but the links do work.

This article is well-written, grammatically correct, and well-organized.

In this article, the pictures of various post-hardcore bands performing live and taking group pictures definitely enhances the experience. Some of these pictures could have been better captioned, but they do adhere to Wikipedia's copyright policies and are laid out in a visually appealing way.

With any topic like music genres, there is a lot of discussion and debate on what bands should be considered post-hardcore, what genres should be considered derivative of post-hardcore and what genres should be considered influential to post-hardcore. The discussions seem fine, but occasionally come off as passive aggressive or going in circles. Apparently there was a "edit war" that happened. Overall, the article was rated as start class and is a part of three WikiProjects, including Music/Music genres task force, Punk music, and Post-hardcore. Discussions in this article seem like most discussion that would occur in a classroom.

The overall status of the article would be like a -B. Its got a lot of information and history, good images, good format, and etc. My criticisms to improve this article would be incorporating some better sources, improvements to the equity gap, updating it with some more recent information, and etc. Personally, I think the article is a little underdeveloped.