User:Yasmin.Brennae

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: "Henry Geldzahler" ( Henry Geldzahler )
• Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate: I choose this article to evaluate, due to the fact, that it seems questionable, and I believe that it has some grammatical errors and could use some more citations.

Lead

Guiding questions

• Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
• Yes, the lead does include an introductory. However, it is too wordy and could be shortened to make more clean and concise.
• Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
• Yes, it does but they seem very brief and short.
• Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
• No, all information talked about in the lead looks to be present in the article.
• Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?
• It is neither concise or over detailed, more or so, grammatically incorrect and could use a tune up.

Lead evaluation (write out your thoughts here)

Overall, the lead does talk about information that is present in the article. I just believe that the grammar could be fixed to make everything flow in a better format.

Content

Guiding questions

• Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
• yes
• Is the content up-to-date?
• yes
• Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?
• no

Tone and Balance

Guiding questions

• Is the article neutral?
• Yes, the article is neutral and remains neutral throughout the article.
• Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
• No, there are no claims that seem to be heavily biased by a particular position.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
• There are some viewpoints that are under represented. The fact of Henry being gay, is briefly mentioned there is no in depth dive in on how that affected his career/life.
• Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?
• No, the article doesn't seem to try to persuade the reader in any direction.

Tone and balance evaluation (write out your thoughts here)

The tone of the article is neutral like it is supposed to be .

Sources and References

Guiding questions

• Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
• Each source seems to be coming from a Wikipedia source and not any other outside sources which is questionable.
• Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
• Yes, each source is thorough and related to the topic it seems to be talking about at that certain point.
• Are the sources current?
• Yes, the sources are current.
• Check a few links. Do they work?
• Yes, each link works for the article.

Organization

Guiding questions

• Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
• The article is well written in some parts, but there are many grammatical errors.
• Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
• No, spelling errors just punctuation errors.
• Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?
• Yes, they are broken down to reflect the major topics, but they do not go deep in to what is happening they just briefly summarize.

Images and Media

Guiding questions

• Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
• The article includes no images.
• Are images well-captioned?
• there are no images on the article
• Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
• no images
• Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?
• no images

Checking the talk page

Guiding questions

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
• The formatting of the links
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
• yes, 3
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
• we haven't really talked about the formatting of links in class.

Overall impressions

Guiding questions

• What is the article's overall status?
• start class
• What are the article's strengths?
• The neutral tone
• How can the article be improved?
• punctuation and citing errors
• How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?
• Under developed

Optional activity

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