User:Yuntian Gan/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: (Economic history)
 * I have some knowledge about economy but this topic of academic is new to me. Therefore, I think I have the ability to evaluate it well as a starting point of my learning.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation
This lead clearly describe the core methodology and goal of study in the field of economic history. However, it is not concise enough as it raise many example that are unnecessary and these example also cannot help people without professional knowledge (as they are mainly link to other pages) to understand more. The lead doesn't introduce the article's major sections, but it is because the page don't have enough information about the overall ideas in this discipline. Which lead to situation like: the lead introduce different sub disciplines in economic history but the content focus on the notable works in this discipline.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Content evaluation
The content is relevant to the topic and relatively up-to date with introduction of recent developments and some recent sources.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
This page is balanced, although it introduce the ideas of economists, it mainly tell in a subjective way (who did what) and it only have some judgmental sentences when it cite other sources to explain about the significance of some works or activities in the history of this discipline.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
Is is backed by reliable source (books published by university press, articles in professional journals). Few of them are not working. However, the list of important works and people are not backed by sources.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
The text itself is not hard to read, it have relatively clear writing and limited amount of difficult or rare wording. However, it often continue for more than a full screen, making it hard to read. This is because the content do not divide sub sections for ling texts that can be divided.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
The article include some images but there lack images that is illustrative to the core concepts of this subject. All images are captioned and adhere to the copyright regulations. The pictures are right near the relevant information.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
This page is not in WikiProjects. The talk have a discussion about the name of this discipline (as it make people think about another study), the relevance to other pages.

The main discussion arise from the functioning of it as a page instead of users opinions. Most suggestions come from other contemporary sources.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
Overall, the article is clearly written, with clear writing and good use of sources to make itself reliable. But it is a little short of contents about the studies in this discipline and a reader-friendly page structure. Dividing more sub sections and adding information about different sections in this discipline will make the page better.

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