User:Adrianfeinberg/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gentrification of San Francisco

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am currently a working on a research project related to the gentrification of Bay Area cities. I was dismayed to find that particular subsections of the above page are extremely lacking in their factual basis. I was particularly struck by a few claims lacking citation in the "Gentrification in the Greater Bay Area" subsection.

Evaluate the article
While the overall structure and factuality of the article appears up to snuff, I would like to highlight a few weaknesses in the "Gentrification in the Greater Bay Area" subsection. For one, there are a series of claims that are obviously false in their factual basis. This subsection includes the claim that "African Americans represent the majority of the population in Bay area cities" without citation. Aside from the obvious capitalization issues, this clause has no grounding in reality. To my knowledge, African Americans do not represent a clear majority in any Bay Area city--- though a more granular historical approach would be beneficial to highlight demographic changes.

This problematic subsection is further plagued by statistically incorrect claims: for instance, that "28% of the African American community made up the whole Oakland population in 2010." I assume this means to say that 28% of Oakland's population was African American in 2010.

A thorough sweep of this entire Wikipedia page should be conducted to further examine similar inaccuracies across this rather long and significant entry. In addition, Wikipedia mods should reevaluate the obvious formatting issues (paragraph lengths are not uniform and lack any semblance of semantic significance).