User:Tmbloyed/Evaluate an Article

Article evaluation feedback

What an interesting term to learn about! I wasn't familiar with it, so this was informative to me, too. This evaluation is very straightforward, which can work great, and your responses are clear. I am left with a few questions about places where it seems you're making opposing statements about the article. For example, you evaluate the article as having all the information it needs, but then mention that the talk page is mostly discussion around adding more information (although I'm not seeing any discussion on the talk page at all...what am I missing?). The biggest thing I would point out is that this is challenging to use as an article that shows how you might expand a "stub" class article when it itself is rated as a "stub" in all projects it's affiliated with. We can work with some of these evaluation components as you're researching and drafting your improvements, but taking a close look at a better article now to be thinking about how a mid-grade article is structured is also part of the usefulness of this exercise.

I look forward to seeing what stub articles you're considering for improvement! 67.189.15.189 (talk) 01:46, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

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: Massing
• Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. I was looking through the given articles and I saw this one. I didn't know what Massing meant so I chose to inform myself.

Lead

Guiding questions

• Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? The lead article does a good job of describing the article.
• Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? The article is rather short but it does indeed describe all sections of the article.
• Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? No it does not, the lead is very straight forward
• Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? The lead is very concise

Content

Guiding questions

• Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the content is very specific to the topic.
• Is the content up-to-date? I would say that it is up to date, last edited on February 9th 2019
• Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? Not knowing very much about this subject I am not sure if there should be anything missing. however I believe it is a short article because it has what it needs and doesn't require more information.

Tone and Balance

Guiding questions

• Is the article neutral? Yes the article is neutral.
• Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No, there is mostly just information.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? No the view points are educational facts.
• Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? No it does not.

Sources and References

Guiding questions

• Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Yes there are 9 references.
• Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? Yes they do
• Are the sources current? Some are current, and a few are not
• Check a few links. Do they work? Yes they do.

Organization

Guiding questions

• Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? Yes the article is very clear and straight to the point.
• Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? No it does not.
• Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? The article is very organized.

Images and Media

Guiding questions

• Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? Yes the article has a skyscraper picture as an example.
• Are images well-captioned? The images have captions and a great description.
• Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? Yes they do.
• Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? The Images are laid out well.

Checking the talk page

Guiding questions

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There is some conversation about how the article could use more information in it.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? This article is a part of 3 wikiprojects. Rated stub class low and mid importance.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Overall impressions

Guiding questions

• What is the article's overall status?
• What are the article's strengths? The article is very straightforward. it is hard to get the wrong idea of what you are looking at.
• How can the article be improved? More pictures and diagrams would be nice although it isn't necessary
• How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? As someone who was looking for information when I came upon this article, I think it is developed quite well. it has enough information to please me.

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