User:22aneumann/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
1860 United States presidential election

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it covers an election that nobody alive today was around for, so we are simply relying on credible sources and expertise in this area, to provide an accurate description of what occurred.

Evaluate the article
The Wikipedia article provides a detailed and mostly neutral overview of the 1860 United States presidential election. The lead effectively introduces the key details - that Abraham Lincoln won the election as the Republican nominee in a four-way race, serving as a catalyst for the secession crisis. The article's content covers the background context, conventions and nominations process, candidates, and outcome of the 1860 election. While comprehensive, the article does have some slight biases, for example subtly praising Lincoln's political maneuvering at the Republican convention. Overall though, it is a strong informational summary of this historically significant election.

The lead section is suffice. It introduces the topic in the first sentence, and it gives some details on the day of the election, the candidates, etc.

The organization of the article was a little messy. For example, there are very few subheadings to arrange the influx of information. There is a lot of of media that complements the writing, which is effective to an extent (i.e. pictures of presidential candidates, United States electoral results map with key, etc.) The images couple be better captioned.

After checking a few links, I can confirm that they work and lead to other wikipedia articles and external sources.