User:11boba/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Boyz (South Korean band)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am very knowledgeable about this group. With Kpop topics covered in Western media, there is often facts but without the context presented. Because I am familiar with the topic and its coverage in both Western and South Korean media, it puts me in a good position to understand what is being said but also what may be missing.

This article matters because they are one of the top and most consistently chart well-performing Kpop group in South Korea. The Boyz satisfy multiple guidelines noted in Wikipedia's Notability (music) page and are one of the prominent Kpop groups among their similarly aged peers. They are a fixture in South Korean music award shows which is a symbol of status for Kpop in South Korea. They are consistently being interviewed by more American media outlets and have nearly 1 million listeners on Spotify, which is not available in South Korea meaning that this is referring to an international fanbase. As their influence grows in the Kpop scene it is important to have reliable and Wikipedia level information available for this group. Western coverage of BTS for example has had outdated or misinformation due to translation errors. By having an article on Wikipedia that can be a source for basic and reliable information, it prevents The Boyz from experiencing the same issues.

My preliminary impression of the article was that it was very factual and did not relay much information about the group's formation or history like in the BTS article. It's most prominent feature is the timeline outlining from pre-debut to the present the group's activities and prevalent events such as awards. The article was also fairly short considering they have 11 active members and have appeared in a variety of different content both in network television in South Korea as well as the internet. The article doesn't mention their portrayal in the media, the group concept and why they're called 'The Boyz' or their characteristics that separate them from other groups which is published in the BTS Wikipedia article. It was also interesting that the timeline for The Boyz was in a bullet point list-like format as compared to the paragraph style I've seen used for many other Kpop groups' articles.

== Evaluate the article (Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.) == The lead section of the article is very short and though it contains all prominent information it is also lacking some details such as how many active members there currently are, or what 'The Boyz' means, and maybe an quantitative summary of their nominations and awards. It also contains the information that a former member 'Hwall' left but this information seems better placed elsewhere or in addition to more information about the group itself because it is an important detail but visually very high up on the article layout making it seem more significant than it perhaps should be.

The content in the article is very factually accurate because it describes activity rather than coverage or opinion/perception of the group in media or the general public. The article's content was also relevant to the Boyz as it outlined their history. But this format does not really teach me about who The Boyz are because it primarily focuses on when different singles/albums were released. This could be because of difficulty of finding sources but it visually and aurally feels barren as the article is written in a very list-like format. The Boyz are well noted for their collaborations and joint projects with visual art production teams and magazines such as Dazed Korea. They have had many magazine covers and features and seems a relevant part of their history as their introductory trailer videos and some of the first content they released was produced through Dazed Korea via a visual team known as 'Haus of Team' which has actually participated in all of their conceptual videos and much of their music video projects. Because this is a considerable part of their visual presentation as well as group image, it may be relevant to add such information to the article. The article also does not list all of tours or concerts they have previously held which may be useful information as the article mentions some but not all performances of this manner. I feel that the article could also list the members' full names as it only mentions the stage names which for some members correlate to their real names and for some members do not at all. As most of the members do not have Wikipedia pages, this would be helpful information in representing a fuller picture of the group. I do not feel that Wikipedia's equity gaps are relevant as the article does not necessarily relate to under or misrepresented group or social/political issues.

The tone of the article is very neutral as it only describes actions without perspective or opinion. It describes events really well and does not subtly express a bias or viewpoint. There are no claims that are biased towards a particular position nor are there viewpoints being represented.

There are no faulty links and the information that is on the page matches to the information presented in the source. The information in the sources are not biased as they are only used to describe dates and events as opposed to opinion. The sources noted are understandably heavily pulled from a Korean news site called 'Naver' as much of The Boyz's career was in Asia, but Naver is a major Korean news source and extremely reliable in regards to entertainment news. It is expected that there will not be scholarly or academic sources on this topic as The Boyz are a fairly new group and so being evaluated in such a publication would be extremely rare.

The talk page is extremely bare. There is a nomination to delete the infopage photo as well as move a discussion to a different talk page- both made by bots. There are no active discussions between editors and thus no glaring issues being discussed. It is in the Biography / Musicians, Korea, and Pop music WikiProjects. It is rated start-class in all WikiProjects and has an additional 'low performance' rating in WikiProject Korea.