User:Mackenziebrumbaugh/Impulse purchase/Pfuller3 Peer Review

Peer review

This is where you will complete your peer review exercise. Please use the following template to fill out your review.

General info

• Whose work are you reviewing? (provide username)
• Link to draft you're reviewing:

Lead

Guiding questions:

• Has the Lead been updated to reflect the new content added by your peer?
• 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?

Content

Guiding questions:

• Is the content added relevant to the topic?
• Is the content added up-to-date?
• Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Tone and Balance

Guiding questions:

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

Sources and References

Guiding questions:

• Is all new content 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?

Organization

Guiding questions:

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

Images and Media

Guiding questions: If your peer added images or media

• 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?

For New Articles Only

If the draft you're reviewing is a new article, consider the following in addition to the above.

• Does the article meet Wikipedia's Notability requirements - i.e. Is the article supported by 2-3 reliable secondary sources independent of the subject?
• How exhaustive is the list of sources? Does it accurately represent all available literature on the subject?
• Does the article follow the patterns of other similar articles - i.e. contain any necessary infoboxes, section headings, and any other features contained within similar articles?
• Does the article link to other articles so it is more discoverable?

Overall impressions

Guiding questions:

• Has the content added improved the overall quality of the article - i.e. Is the article more complete?
• What are the strengths of the content added?
• How can the content added be improved?

Overall evaluation

Right away this article appears to be defining the term “impulse purchase” with a neutral point of view. Mckenzie then goes on to state that the term had been updated since the time in which this definition was created. Mckenzie then added credible references to definitions of the term “impulse purchases”. Overall, this article provided a summary of these different sources that created an impartial reflection on this economic term without providing the author’s personal thoughts or opinions on the matter or discussing any type of prior debates on the topic. I also wasn’t able to determine if the author of this article had any particular viewpoint of their own on the matter.

I also think the author did a thorough job making sure that they didn’t write too much on one specific topic or subtopic for impulse purchases. There wasn’t a point in which I found myself having to skim through or skip sections of the article because there had already been too much information provided on a certain section of the article. For the most part, it was short yet precise. The author also did a good job determining what causes an impulse purchase and the motivation behind making these last minute purchases.

Although this is just a wikipedia article and it is just meant to provide the information in an impartial matter, I do believe that this article could benefit from a pros/cons section of impulse purchases. Or just a section stating that impulse purchases can be prevented by proper budgeting because they can often negatively affect our finances if we as consumers can not refrain from making too many impulse purchases.