Talk:Yi-Fu Tuan

From Geography

Rating (from 0-10, 10 being the highest, and 6 being just sufficient)

1. Relevance: 8/10: Yi-Fu Tuan is an important figure in the human geography and thereby highly relevant for this course. Yi-Fu Tuan redefined understandings of human geography and give a new look to the concept of place, by linking it to experience. With his work Tuan was one of the pioneers of the 'new' humanistic geography.

2. Well-written: 8/10: The page is well-written, the writers have used correct English and a professional standard. There is some short background information about Yi-Fu Tuan and thereafter the focus is on his ideas and contributions, through which no major facts are neglected and the subject is placed in the context.

3. well-researched: 8/10: The page is well-researched, the contributors used different scientific well-written references for the text. Besides they used the APA guidelines correctly in the text to relate certain parts to the source.

4. Broad in its coverage: 7/10:The page addresses the main aspects of the topic. There is attention for the main aspects (that are also relevant for this course) such as: background information, important contributions, his approach, important works and the critique on his work. Besides it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail.

5. Neutral: 9/10: The text is written neutral. There is no criticizing performed by the authors.

6. Stable: 7/10: The page is pretty stable, the page is over time enhanced by three people, who did not change the page significantly.

7. Well-structured: 7/10: The page is well structured. There are clear sections of the different topics in the text. There is only missing a link to the page of place (and space) on the wiki.

8. Illustrated: 9/10: The only relevant picture for this page could be a picture of Yi-Fu Tuan himself and that picture is in the page.

9. Length: 6-7/10: The length of the page is okay, through keeping the text summarily it becomes interesting to read, but the part of the contributions and approach of Yi-Fu Tuan could maybe more extensive, with more explaining of his contributions, to for example the concept of place and space, the page would improve.

Page evaluated by Lars Paardekooper 23 October 2012