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Article Critique

I am interested in cars and have extensive experience in maintaining and operating these wonderful machines. I grew up learning how to work on cars with my dad and so I spent some time browsing Wikipedia to review how each component goes together and works with one another. I visited the steering knuckle page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: it's lack of citations, it's neglect of the design variations, and it's lack of diagrams.

Lack of Citations

This article seems as though it was written by an enthusiast with a lot of knowledge on the subject. There was a lot of information, but absolutely no citations. Even if the author had used a website in order to gather the information, he did not mention it. He had a link to the Sterling Elliot page, which is fitting, but no information that was used in the article was drawn from this page.

Lack of Completion

The article briefly mentions the different types of steering knuckles, but only explains the difference between driven and not driven variations. There are many different variations of the steering knuckle based on it's application. One could mention the differences found from other types of suspension systems, or performance differences caused by modifications of the steering knuckle.

Lack of Diagrams

In accordance with the nature of the subject, it can be difficult to understand what the article is describing if you do not have prior knowledge of automotive anatomy. A couple diagrams would assist a reader in understanding the component that you are researching. In most situations, a diagram would help the reader to be able to apply the knowledge learned from a research article such as this.

Summary

Overall, I would say that this page is poorly written. There is a decent amount of information for such an obscure topic, but no references are given. This article is similar to one claiming that the moon is made of cheese. Although it goes into detail about what the steering knuckles are and how they fit, there are no citations to show that the information presented is correct. If this article were to be edited to include citations, diagrams, and expand on the versatility of steering knuckles, then it would be a much better article.