User:Choff324/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
American Dream

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because the "American Dream" is a common theme/mantra used throughout our history, politics, and culture. It is vastly different for everyone. My preliminary impression was that the article would cover the origins and the cultural relevance of this idea.s

Evaluate the article
The lead does a good job giving the reader a clear and concise idea of what they are reading about. The lead also gives examples of the American Dream, however, it does not give a clear idea of the subheadings that will be included later on in the article. This could be improved.

The content is relevant throughout. The content talks about the origins of the American Dream: who coined the term, where the idea is derived from, and so forth. Additionally, the page shows how the American Dream has been portrayed in entertainment such as literature and movies. Additionally, how it has changed during significant time periods such as WWII, or more general eras such as the 19th Century. Overall, the content is relevant and solid. I think the content might be slightly swayed away from neutral, and could be viewed as biased toward the United States. However, this could be just due to the content of the page.

Images and media- The images are not major parts of the page, but the images do seem relevant to the topic and contribute good visuals.

Talk page: On the talk page, it is mostly people fixing errors and typos. Other than that, there is not a lot of discourse. One user does point out that they think the page is tilted "pro-American" and it does not feel as though the content meets Wikipedia's goal of neutrality.

Overall, I think the page is solid. I do agree that the page could be made more neutral. In some places, I think the writing could be laid out more factually, which will contribute to the neutrality of the page. I think there is certainly content that could be added as well. There is a subheading "Political Leaders" which lists a few of the leaders who have used the American Dream as part of their campaign. This section makes no note of President Ronald Reagan who used this ethos as the basis of many of his speeches. I think this should be added in.