User:Alejandra Navarro Rosado/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: (link)Basketball in Australia
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. I choose this articles because the theme is something is a sport that I loved and which I know about it since I used to played basketball.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation
- I feel that the Lead is not clearly describe because I would start with a sentence telling me what is basketball and then on the other sentences I start talking about what is the basketball on Australia or how they played it there. Also sometimes the article talks about something but doesn't explain what is, this for a reader it can be difficult because it means that he would have to go and look information about that specific thing when it can be mention in this article. This article doesn't gives you the information detailed it just give it to you over.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?
 * Does the article deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps? Does it address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics?

Content evaluation
- The article it is relevant to the topic, also the content part it's exactly how the article is order and it doesn't have anything extra. I like that in the content it include the part of external links since sometimes writers don't include it on.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
- The article it guides you to what he is talking about but something that it's not favorable to the article is that it doesn't give you that much of information where you can understand it or even have your thoughts clear. If the article give you that much of information and explained it really well it could be a better article because it needs more information to be a complete article.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Are the sources written by a diverse spectrum of authors? Do they include historically marginalized individuals where possible?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
- The references aren't good because much of them you have to pay so you can have the information, is not an open search, and because of this we can't look for more information or read if what the writer said is exactly what the reference talks. Also I feel that is not a lot of reference for the quantity of information that have.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
- The article is well organized and it have an order of topics. It have sections that divide the information that he is presenting. Also when I read it I don't see any grammatical errors, all of the words are write it correctly when it stalks about of present, past or future.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
- The article it only include one image that's it looks that it was taken when they where getting and award or celebrating something. The image have campions of what is about but it doesn't have a link of where it was obtain.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
- The article is rated as a C-Class on the projects scale. The article also is from WikiProject Basketball, which is mark as Top-importance. On the External Links modified someone modified 3 links and let notified to the author so he can look them. Also it have been rated as Low-importance on the projects important-scale.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
- In my opinion the article is well developed but the only thing is that it needs more information and more references because the ones that have not everyone can look them since you have to pay for it. It needs to explained more of what he is talking about because he's just leaving it simple and sometimes the reader can't understand well of what he is talking about.

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