User:Bdl2006!/Evaluate an Article

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 becuase it corelates to my topic of sports and adrenaline. I belive this matters because it is something every human will feel in there life time and I wanted to learn more about it. My preliminary impression of the article was that there was a lot of little sectons with lots of different information which I thought made the article really nice to read.

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.)

Lead Section

The article does a nice job of introducing all sports that correlate with having an extreme aspect to it. These sports are normally ones of extreme measures, such as high heights, lots of risk, and a lot of speed. The article is well put together and is very easy to read because of how the writer overlaps extreme tourism with the difference in engagement and professionalism, it provides the reader such as myself with clarity.

Context

When talking about content the article is very well put together, as I said above it covers a lot of topics. These include definitions that are important in extreme sports, classification, history of extreme sports, and people's motivation behind their doings. It is extremely important for this information to stay up to date as it reflects on recent trends in this very specific sports field. It doesn't talk too much about equity gaps but it could deepen the article's impact on others.

Tone and balance

When talking about the tone it is neutral, nothing in this article has the power to persuade me in any way. This is a good thing because the article shouldn't sound biased in any way. The article does talk about different viewpoints on extreme sports but it isn't covered very much. Maybe it would help if we found some opinions from more known extreme sports athletes.

Sources and Refrences

Yes, all the facts are backed up by reliable secondary sources. There is a big list at the bottom of the article as regards to all the sources. Yes, all the sources reflect the available literature on the topic. Yes, the sources are current. Just about every source works and has the right information. As most of the authors seem to be someone interested in sports they all speak of the right information. I think these sources work just fine, no need for better ones.

Organization and writing quality--Images and Media

The organization and wiring quality are clear and logical. Always proofread just to make sure you're addressing any grammatical or spelling errors, this drastically could help the reader understand your topic. Make sure you follow Wikipedia copy-right policies, I'm talking about the images that could be put on the article. I would suggest putting images on the article as it makes it more visual and in my opinion, that is very important.

Talk page

There is only one thing on the talk page. Someone said that the article didn't talk about "morality". They said that "The “morality” section on this page does not contain any mention of morality. It simply reiterates that 1. Extreme sports involve a degree of danger and 2. That danger is part of the appeal of extreme sports. This could be the start of a substantive discussion of moral arguments for and against extreme sports, but right now it is not. This section should either be deleted or majorly elaborated upon." Stating that the section where they were suppost to talk about morality doesn't even metion it. Therefore it is not needed.

Overall impressions

Overall I think this article is well constructed, from the way it talks about extreme sports to the mind games it can play on you. The only thing on the talk page was from 2021, so maybe get some new information in there. Go over everything and re-read it just to make sure everything is up to date. I think the article is well-developed, it is nicely put together with lots of sources to back up the information.