User:Alsukim/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Green Line D branch

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 this article because I use the Green Line D branch often (it's part of the Greater Boston Transit system). I thought it might be important to other Bostonians. My preliminary impression was that it does not seem to be a C-class article, as it has many links and citations, lots of information, and generally good grammar as far as I could tell.

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.)

The lead has a clear introductory sentence, but does not include a description of the article's major sections. It might be a little cluttered with detail.

The content is relevant, up-to-date, and addresses accessibility, which I think is the most logical/relevant equity issue to address in the article. There does not seem to be missing information.

The tone and balance is neutral as most of the content simply details the various changes made to the subway line. Thus, there is no persuasive writing either.

All of the sentences containing new information have citations. The sources reflect available literature and are up to date, being a mix of railroad or transportation data from transportation companies or the government, along with some news articles from local news outlets about various events. As a result of the narrow pool of literature, the sources are not very diverse - however more diverse ones might not exist or be relevant. One issue is that some of the sources are from the MBTA, the company hat owns the line. The links I clicked on work.

The writing quality is good, without grammatical or spelling errors. due to the heavy amount of numbers and dates, it can be hard to follow, but changing this would sacrifice detail. The organization is also good with nothing standing out.

The images are well chosen and well captioned. The images adhere to the copyright regulations. The images are laid out well, although they could be a bit bigger.

Most of the talk page is clarifying facts, plus a discussion to move the article. The article is rated C-class. It is part of the United States, Massachusetts, Boston, and maybe the Train(?) WikiProjects.

The article overall seems to be in a great status, with a lot of detail and both up-to-date and historical content. The article could be improved by consolidating some detail or having less detailed organizational/transition sentences for an easier read - however, I think the article is well-written if one is simply looking for a certain event or change that happened to the line at a certain date, as I'm assuming few people are reading the whole article through like I did. The article is well-developed.