User:Annafilippovaa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because we were briefly discussing ubiquitous presidencies in class, social media being an impacting factor. This article in particular matters because the 2016 election was a major turning point in US politics, the consistent social media fire that both candidates faced should have been enough for both of them to lose the race, like Clinton's emails or Trump's re-surfacing sexual harassment comments. After reading this article through it looks relatively thorough, specifically because of the often neglected third party candidates and impact section highlighting the influence of social media.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is pretty solid, the beginning/topic sentence gives a brief overview of what the article is going to be about and doesn't include unnecessary details that aren't mentioned within the rest of the article. The content of the article could be brought up to date more, including Trump's reinstatement of his Twitter account would be useful but other than that everything is there. The inclusion of third party candidates also speaks to the quality of content within the article. Going hand in hand the tone appears to be neutral, covering multiple perspectives not just focusing on a specific political party. Sources are current, and reliable adhering to Wikipedia's policies. A few sources could be replaced by peer reviewed studies, in particular the reddit citations, however it is difficult to find peer reviewed studies analyzing Donald Trump's reddit page. Images are relevant to article information, and display a visual representation of the increased social media use in 2016. A few examples of candidate specific social media use could have been a helpful addition as well. Organization is also done well it was simple and interesting to read with captioned images accompanying it.

In relation to the talk page, there was a ton of conversation! For example, between users that added edits and users that were listing out details to include and so on. This article is GA-class, is a good article nominee, and was featured in Wikipedia's 'Did You Know Column?' as of May 3, 2021. Wikipedia doesn't really mention ubiquitous presidencies in relation to this topic at all, like how we would in class, but it does highlight the impact that social media had on this election as a turning point for how it is used in future elections. The article's status is as mentioned, a good article and strengths lie in the specificity of social media use, ranging from memes to social media campaign examples. The article has little room for improvement, potentially it could add how the 2016 social media use in the election had impacts on 2020 social media election use but that could also be too much detail. Based on the listed criteria, the article is extremely well developed.