User:Atnakaso/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Immigration Act of 1990

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 the Immigration Act of 1990 as lays the foundation for current US Immigration law and continues to shape the demographic of the United States. Preliminary Impression is that the article provides a basic outline of the components of the legislation as well as some other additional information. Some of the sections do seem to have more information than others and it's lacking in regards to effects of the legislation.

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 section is choppy and could use a re-write to make it more concise. For the most part, the content in the article is relevant to the topic and up to date. While it does provide a decent summary of the legislation, it lacks organization and has additional information that does not need to be included. The section regarding the Bush Administration feels out of place as the rest of the article details the actual legislation; however, could be relevant if implemented with more information regarding the promotions and response of/to the act.The organization is lacking and seems to suffer from a lack from fully-fleshed-out understanding of the topic. The sections hardly follow a structure and information is repeated because of this. The article should have a more definitive separation between components of the actual legislation and then additional sections that provide more context such as information about previous and current immigration reform. In terms of Wikipedia equity gaps and relating the topic to representation for underrepresented groups, a section should be added that details the impact on certain ethnic groups or responses to this act from political groups that focus on immigration reform (as this issue pertains heavily to ethnic groups with a history of immigration to the US). Because this article does little other than detail the law itself, the tone is kept almost completely neutral; however, this also means that the article is underrepresenting responses to the law that are integral to understanding its role in US society. As for the sources used to write this article, the majority of the references are from prior to 2014 and could be interpreted as being out of date. The article does reference the US law itself from official sources but some references are not the most credible. There is one image used on the whole page and its a graph pertaining to one specific impact of the topic. Several images that exemplify each section of the law could also be included to achieve the same effect and bolster understanding of the topic. The talk page of the article has limited discussions mostly pertaining to external link modifications. The page is rated as "start" and ranks low for both the "Law" and "United States" WikiProjects. This article talks about the mostly about the provisions of the law and forgoes other concepts that would support policy analysis even preliminary notions of "why". Overall, the article is just above basic, under-developed, and has strength only in that basic understanding of components of the legislation and would benefit from more depth historical context, present day context, additional legacy and impact, and restructuring.