User:Ajdel/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It's an interesting law with only a few edits but a number of page watchers.

Evaluate the article
The lead section gives a very brief overview of legislative history and a couple things about the actual content of the law. It kind of gives you a clue as to what the greater article will contain.

What content the article does contain is relevant, although I'll have to do further research into the court cases to find out if those are up to date. There's also definitely a good amount of content missing that would round out the article, the reception section in particular only focuses on criticisms when the act was in fact extremely popular when it was introduced and ended up passing with broad bipartisan support.

The article emphasizes the habeas corpus provision and the criticism thereof and pretty much ignores the rest of the law. There's a lot of bias in the way that section is talked about as well and it does seem somewhat persuasive.

Most of the sources are from the 2000s and 2010s with two additional from 2022, there are a good number of newspaper articles and such from the 1990s that would be nice to add.

The organization of the article definitely reflects the bias present in the content and will definitely need to be edited.

There aren't any images and there doesn't really seem to be a need for any so that's all good.

There are only two non-bot comments on the talk page and both are from over a decade ago. The article is part of WikiProject Law and United States/Government.

The article is rated Start-class, Low-importance. The article does have a decent start on formatting and an easily improved lead section. There are lots of improvements to make, beginning with adding content and eliminating a lot of the bias that's present. The article is definitely underdeveloped.