User:Zawackimc/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?

 * Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola (Inferno 12)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because when I was reading, in Inferno 12, about Guy de Montfort, I thought his story was very interesting! Just briefly looking at the article it is very short, and the source list only contains two sources.

Evaluate the article
This article is not where it should be, it is poorly written and requires much more information and research to be considered useful.

To begin with the leading section of this article only contains one sentence that says who Guy de Montfort's parents were. It does not give any further information on what the article will talk about and is incredibly brief nor does it contain the necessary information for a lead section. In terms of content, what is in the article is relevant, however it only touches on topics rather than being detailed and thorough about them. There are only three sections; Biography, Family, and Ancestors of which the Biography was the longest and fairly well developed, the Family was only two brief paragraphs and the Ancestors was only a diagram without any explanation or discussion. By doing more research, and more specific research, this article can be easily improved. Also, by adding more sections such as how Guy de Montfort is portrayed in other works can open up another line of information.

This article is definitely neutral in tone, which is very well done. Since it is based on a historical person it is not very difficult to remain unbiased as long as one doesn't get too caught up in the political leanings of the time. For the sources and references, there many links within the article to other Wikipedia articles which is good however there are only two sources used. One source is relatively recent while the other is from the late 19th century. Because this article is about someone from the 13th century I do not believe that the 19th century source must be invalid or not used, but there should be more modern sources to either confirm that information or provide a different perspective. From what I have tested, the links all work and lead to the correct source which is wonderful.

The organization of the content is sensible and, grammatically, the writing is good but the content within is not described properly and is very brief. The article is easy to read and too concise, there should be more detail involved. There are two images used, one a picture of Guy de Montfort and one is a family tree of Guy de Montfort. The image of Montfort is well captioned with good information while the family tree contains no caption and is the entirety of the Ancestors section and needs more work. As the article is so short, I see no issue in how the images are organized, and I think that there should probably be more images to keep the article engaging.

There has not been any discussion on the talk page and when I looked at the revision history, there have been many revisions the latest being in July 2020. The overall status of the article is Start-Class and is underdeveloped in the sections other than the biography and well-developed in the biography section. The article has a very good structure with a very good outline of Guy de Montfort's life but it lacks real substance in terms of details. The article can be improved by using more sources, and looking for specific sources rather than ones that only broadly discuss Guy de Montfort and using more specific information in the article. Also by adding more images and adding captions to the images can make the article more visually appealing and interesting to the reader.