User:1517luther/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Norm Charlton - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I'm a big fan of the Seattle Mariners and I know a lot about the team and the players who played for them. This pitcher played for many years in the Major Leagues and has a woefully incomplete biography. Also, this article is within the scope of WikiProject: Baseball and was rated as a start-class article with mid-importance.

Evaluate the article
Lead section

While the introductory sentence is good, and the lead is concise. The lead does not really address the article's main sections or give any summary about the person's playing career.

Content

The content is relevant to the article but is not up to date. The last information about the person in the article is 2008.

There isn't content that does not belong but there is plenty of content missing and also the content is not properly formatted. For example, his baseball stats at Rice University should not be under personal life but should be under a heading for college career.

Tone and Balance

The tone is mostly neutral, but the article lacks balance. For a guy that played baseball for so many years, very little is told of his career. His time with many teams is completely unaccounted for and his retirement is not even mentioned. The only bias I would mention is that in the paragraph about his time with the Mariners, it sounds a little like it was written by a Mariners fan. An example would be saying "the two most beloved Mariner teams." This is an opinion not backed up by any source.

Sources and References

This is the worst part of the article. The links under References lead to broken links that no longer exist. No interviews are used or books that contain information about the person. The research is very lacking. There are no current references and most of the links are for the Reds and no other teams the player played with.

Organization and writing quality

While the article is easy to read, and I do not see specific grammatical or spelling errors. The article is missing a lot of content and missing sections and better organization. I used the article on Derek Jeter which was considered an FA-class article as an example of an article properly organized with the proper headers.

Images and Media

The images are few. One is not labeled. There should be some images of the pitcher actually pitching. The pictures do adhere to copyright regulations.

Talk page discussion

There really is no discussion on the talk page. The last revision was in 2019. The article is part of three different WikiProjects and is considered a start-class article.

Overall impressions

The article is underdeveloped. Early life only contains one sentence from birth through high school and one sentence about college. His college career is not a section. His professional career is not organized by years and is incomplete. There is no minor league section. There is nothing talking about the types of pitches he threw or anything about his pitching strategy. There are no quotes from anyone or from the player himself. This article could be greatly improved.