User:Alexisanderson89/Evaluate an Article

Reality Television / Jersey Shore 2009-2012

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Jersey Shore (TV series)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose to evaluate Jersey Shore because reality television show is a big part of my life, especially when I got into college. I am from the East Coast so I understand the humor of the series and it is still one of MTV's highest rating shows. It matters because I think reality television benefits my life including my friends. When watching this show you tend to focus on the main character's real lives and forget everything that is happening in your life for 40-45 minutes. Watching this show and any reality television show that I am drawn to makes me forget my worries in my actual life. My preliminary impression before watching this show is that I never heard good things about it, I was in middle school when it came out so I didn't really watch it because I was young and was for an older mature audience. There was controversy with the show because it showed everything going on in their lives including the private moments, but when I got into college I got into it a couple years ago when my friends would say references from the series and I had no clue what they were talking about so I decided to start the series from the beginning and it turned out to be one of the funniest / best shows I have ever watched.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

When looking for what articles to do, I decided to look at the C-Class articles and the Wikiprojects to see what topic stood out to me. I saw the link reality television and knew that was the one for me and then I wanted to narrow my wikipedia evaluation and started to focus on just one reality television show that has impacted my life. The first thing I focused on before I even started my wikipedia evaluation was to make sure all the dates were correct and the settings on where the shows throughout the years have been produced. Everything was correct so then I went deeper into the evaluation and focused on the main section of the Wikipedia article. I think everything in the article was relevant to the article topic, they were right on point with the description of the show and the show's impact on the millions of viewers who tuned in every week for the show. None of the information was out of date and maybe in the article they could've talked about the main cast members past and how they got the job on the reality television show, but besides that everything was on point. I don't think the lead section was overly detailed at all, it was short and sweet and got to the point. I do think the article was from a neutral point of view, of course they brought up the controversy within the show, but I think maybe it was because before this reality show there really wasn't a reality show ever made like this. When the show first came out everyone hated it so much that when the show first aired Louis Vuitton would purposely send Nicole "Snooki" Gucci bags for free so she would wear them on the show so that people would stop buying Gucci bags and more people would buy Louis Vuitton's. It was from a neural point of view, but of course they would bring up the controversy because it was so highly talked about when the series first aired so I don't think it came from a bad place. All the facts and the sources / references are all up to date, very well-stated and shows what when on during the show. The sources are written by a diverse spectrum of authors and they did have articles to back up the information. The links worked when I looked at the peer-reviewed authors. The organization and writing quality was beautifully written and easy to read. I didn't see spelling errors and I think this article was very well organized. The article had great images showing where the show was always filmed which was the Jersey Broad-walk, the shop they worked in and the house they were staying at during the summers. The article was clear and very well developed, I don't have anything negative to say about the Wikipedia page at all, maybe they could've just talked about how the main cast members landed the role and the significance the show created for people to visit the Jersey Shore over the summers compared to the show before hand.