User:Yunzhe Xu/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Nova

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have been interested in astronomy since I was a child, and I like to watch some popular science programs about astronomy. In my freshman year, I also took an astronomy course and learned relevant content, so I choose this article. My preliminary impression of it was it tells me a lot about Nova, like what nova is, how it formed, and gives some examples of novas.

Evaluate the article
The lead section has a concisely and clearly introductory sentence that describe what is a nova, how it formed and what it looks like and so on. The lead does not include information that is not present in the article but it is a little bit over detailed because there are four paragraphs.

The content of this article is good, they are relevant to the topic and no missing content. Many datas are very precisely. The content are up-to-date because there are many information recorded from 2020. The article does not address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics.

The article is neutral. Because it is a science article, there are no claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position, no viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented, no minority or fringe viewpoints, no attempt that persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another.

All the facts in this article are reliable and thorough. The datas in this article are almost from academic journals. I checked the reference some of the reference are from 2015-2020 so the sources are current. The sources were written by a diverse spectrum of authors. I checked most of the links, all of them works.

The article is easy to read, but contains many terminologies, not friendly for people with no background information. I haven't found any spelling errors yet.

There are four pictures in this article which can help us understand what the topic is. They are reletive well-captioned for me. All images have a link below them, so they adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations.

For the talk page discussion, there are many supplement information about nova. I like the misunderstanding part in the talk page. Someone says he was looking for comic book character called Nova but the thing he found is a astronomy "Nova". It is funny. This article is in C-class Astronomy articles of Top-importance.

I think this article is very important because nova is an important word in astronomy, and many people need to search for it on the Internet, and this article is a good solution to this problem. What needs to be improved in this article is that it can be expanded to include more content, more pictures, and then some historical stories about Nova. It is relatively well-developed.