User:CaseyChoCSULB/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I am evaluating the article on the 1848 United States presidential election.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the article on the 1848 United States Presidential Election because I am quite interested in American political history and especially the history of elections. 1848 was an important Presidential election because it saw the rise of a broad-based antislavery party in the form of the Free Soil party and was the Presidential election immediately preceding the Compromise of 1850. My preliminary impression was that the article was an adequate summary of the election.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of the article does provide a concise overview of the overall article but maybe overly lengthy. In particular, the lead section contains some statements about the aftermath of the election that is not only unnecessary in the lead election but is not in the main body of the article. The article's content is relevant and complete, recounting the main events of the 1848 Presidential election and providing tabulations of the election results. The article is also largely neutral in POV though it occasionally may be unintentionally biased due to relying on a particular historian such as describing Van Buren's motives in the election being driven by "bitterness". The sources are thorough and up to date with the Internet-based links to sources being still functional. However, a more thorough use could have been made of certain sources to provide additional citations or details for the article. Additionally, the article could have contained some information regarding how nonwhite voters (who were eligible in certain states) or immigrant groups voted in this election. The organization of the article is logical and follows conventions Wikipedia has for articles on US Presidential elections generally. There were no significant spelling or grammatical error that I noticed. The images were perhaps the strongest feature of this article. There were many primary source political cartoons and posters that helps illustrate the article. Additionally, the maps of the 1848 election provide excellent summaries of the differing geographical support bases of each candidate. The article is C-Class and there has been relatively little discussion on the Talk page. The article's main strengths lie in the illustrations and visual summaries of data in the form of maps. The article can still be improved in further synthesizing recent scholarship into the main body of the article with additional details.