User:Alex Bilyan/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Trophy hunting

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The reason why I have chosen this article is firstly the fact that it is marked as a preliminary article with plenty of room for improvement; it is also closely related to the topic of our final Wikipedia assignment, so I believe that evaluating this article will help me prepare for my final assignment. Finally, while reading the article, I have personally noticed some parts that could be improved or even corrected, so I decided that this article is suitable for evaluation.

Evaluate the article
While some aspects of the article seem to be in tact, such as the lead section which is overall concise and informative, the tone and balance which is unbiased and objective, and content which is relevant to the topic throughout the entire article, some other aspects of the article are really weak and need major improvements. Specifically, Sources and References seem to be the major weakness of the article, as there are numerous "dead links", and some of the references don't seem to bolster the claims made in the article. For example, as I have mentioned in the talk page of the article, the claim regarding tourism contributing about 5% of South Africa's GDP is not only unsupported by the cited sources but is also outdated as other sources indicate different data. I believe that in order to improve the article, it is firstly required to reform the references tab and clear out all the dead links. Additionally, parts of the article that are unsupported by the references or are supported by unreliable or outdated sources need to be either deleted or some new citations need to be made that would support the claims. As for the other aspects of the article such as writing quality and Overall impressions, the article seems a bit raw, and it needs improvements, but the primary problem in my opinion are proper citations.