User:Borchersg1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
George Sutherland

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have seen Justice Sutherlands name appear on a multitude of important supreme court cases and was interested to know more about him and his career.

Evaluate the article
Justice George Sutherland

The article in question is a summarization of the life and work of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice George Sutherland. The article discusses Sutherlands early family history, his early life, his time in congress, his appointment to the supreme court, his post court life, and his religiosity.

Lead Section

The lead section of the article seems to be fairly well put together. It has references to information included throughout the article. However, there is some information that seems to be exclusive to the introduction although this exclusive info is relatively minimal. Finally, the lead section is concise and does not over explain while still introducing the topic well.

Content

All content within the article seems to be in relation to the topic at hand. Most information present seems to be up to date, or as up to date as possible given the nature of the topic. Overall, all content present is appropriate and helpful to understanding the article.

Tone and Balance

The article, despite discussing a primarily political figure, does not seem to hold any sort of bias. The article discusses Sutherland in a neutral informative way that in no way interjects any personal bias or opinions.

Sources

There appears to be an ample number of quality sources most linking to scholarly books and articles on Justice Sutherland and the supreme court. Most all articles seem to be appropriate and up to date as well.

Organization

The article is clearly written in a way that anyone could easily comprehend.

Images

The article includes a few images of the Justice but overall relatively little imagery is used. This is not incredibly detrimental to the article however.

Talk Page

The talk page for this article seems relatively short, however, given the overall length of the article it is fairly appropriate.

Impressions

In totality the article seems to deliver good unbiased information regarding a generally considered unpopular supreme court justice. The ability of the authors to avoid inserting bias or opinions and only display quality well researched facts on the man truly shows that the article is one of quality.