User:Yesvery875/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Conference of the Birds

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because the poem and illustrations of the poem are an important example of the extensive and beautiful array of Islamic written culture. The 'Conference of the Birds' is a Persian poem that was read to me as a child and I always marveled at the illustrations in the children's version of the book that I had. I never understood the symbolism and hidden meanings as a child but later began to unravel them as I reread it. I chose this article to evaluate because right off the bat it says that the article needs more reliable sources and I thought it would be interesting to evaluate. My preliminary impression is that most of the text of the article is quoted, which isn't a great sign.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section: While the lead provides a good introductory sentence, the rest of the paragraph summarizes the author's life and death instead of summarizing the poem.

Content: The content is relevant, but focuses mainly on the summary of the poem, and contains several quotations, rather than descriptions and detail about the different parts of the poem. The most recent source is from 2017, so it could use some updating.

Tone and Balance: The article has a neutral point of view.

Sources: There are only a few sources to begin with, and most seem to cover similar topics, rather than branch out to find different perspectives and interpretations from scholars.

Organization and writing: The organization is fine for the amount of information on the page, but it greatly lacks any detail of any of the seven valleys which each have their own part in the poem, and seems to be how I would organize the page. The writing is simple and concise and easy to follow.

Images: The images (miniatures) add a lot to the article and bring it to life, however, only some images are captioned thoroughly.

Talk page: The article is part of two wikiprojects: WikiProject Poetry and WikiProjectIran. The talk page discussion has highlighted some errors in the text and some copyright violations as well. One person noted that the way the poem is written on the page is also not representative of the Persian version. The article has a C-rating.

Overall impression: I believe the current article is a good start, but it is incomplete and underdeveloped. There is a lot of room for improvement and need for filling in a lot of the gaps.