User:Corinnedottori/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Affordable housing in Canada
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. I chose to evaluate this article because I am interested with housing prices in other parts of the world and how different countries approach affordable housing in comparison to the US.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes it does. It presents the main idea about affordable housing and three different types of affordable housing in Canada (market, non-market, and government subsidized).
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? The article does have a table of contents that includes each section, however, there is no description underneath the titles of the sections. A brief description could be beneficial to add.
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? No. Everything the author put in the lead was included in the article.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? Concise. It gets to the point of the article and points out three different affordable housing sections that will be analyze.

Content

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 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? This article is relevant to the topic. It has to do with affordable housing in Canada and why / how affordable housing became important especially after 2017.
 * Is the content up-to-date? Yes mostly up to date (most of the information takes place from 2016 - 2019)
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? No, I did not see content that is missing or does not belong. All of the information presented is relevant to the article.
 * Does the article deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps? Does it address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics? This article does address these two things. This article is about affordable housing in Canada which includes government subsidized housing. I believe it does addresses underrepresented populations as it talks about rates of homelessness, and low income households who have members living in the house with severe mental / physical disabilities.

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral? Yes. This article does not seem to be written in any biased way. The facts / statements are all backed up by a number of reliable sources.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No. The author(s) do not use opinionated language, rather they stick to the facts and present the information in a neutral way.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? One viewpoint in article does not hold weight over the others. Some issues are brought up more than others, however, all of the viewpoints seem to be represented well.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? No the author doesn't. Throughout the article the author presents us with a multi-dimensional view of this article. There are facts presented both in favor and against how Canada has handled their affordable housing.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? From what I can tell yes. I did not see any blog posts nor material from the press.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? Yes the sources are thorough. The author used a multitude of sources in order to assure the article was not biased nor lacking information. There is a significant amount of articles written on this topic, however this article was pieced together in a way that was very informative but semi- concise at the same time.
 * Are the sources current? The sources (for the most part are current). Looking over the sources I only saw one source used from the 1990's (specifically 1995). However, that being said most are 2013-2019 with a few in 2006 time period.
 * Are the sources written by a diverse spectrum of authors? Do they include historically marginalized individuals where possible? From what I can tell the sources are written by a diverse spectrum of authors. The author of this article does not look towards one author as his "go to." In other words, no one author is listed more than twice and the authors are not all white men, There are women and non-white authors in the reference section as well.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? I checked three links and they all worked.

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? This article is dense only because of the amount of facts packed in, in regards to unemployment, homelessness, housing affordability etc. The being said, the article is not immensely long and it is easy to read. It is concise, but long enough to get all of the information necessary across.
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? I did not notice any grammatical or spelling errors.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? Yes the article is well-organized. It starts of clear and concise with an introduction then to the background. Each new section is titled with a bolded, larger font followed by information pertaining to that section title.

Images and Media

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 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? The article does include images however they are all very small and all towards the right of the page. Looking at it from an aesthetic point I think the images could be positioned on the page better. Additionally, the variety of pictures is not great. There are multiple pictures of homeless people and one picture of a building in Vancouver. Although affordable housing oftentimes is associated with low-income / homeless citizens they are not the only groups of people that need affordable housing. Therefore, I think pictures should have been included that show families, or middle class people that also benefit from affordable housing.
 * Are images well-captioned? The images are well captioned. They are all one sentence giving a brief explanation of what the image is showing.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? Yes.
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? No, as I said before, I think the images should be spaced out more evenly throughout the article and on both the left and right sides. Additionally, I think they should be a little larger.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? Most of the conversations going on on the talk about are in regards to editing external links. Additionally, there was one comment about a statement made in the article that was borderline plagiarism due to the close paraphrasing. However, the change was made and is no longer there. Additionally, the first comment on the talk page said that one of the statements was not only (slightly) opinionated but not correct at all. So that was changed as well.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is rated C class mid importance. It is a part of 3 projects which are: WikiProject Home Living, WikiProject Economics, and WikiProject Canada.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? We haven't gone into detail about affordable housing in Canada but we have talked a little about housing / districts and the like. This article definitely went more in depth regarding a specific location. Additionally it went into detail about the different types of affordable housing and why it is of such importance for Canada after 2017.

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths? The article's strength include: the factual information presented. Additionally, although the article was dense, it was written in a way that was way to understand. The author also cited all of the sources correctly and had a multitude of sources the author pulled from.
 * How can the article be improved? The article can be improved by having a stronger lead with better short descriptions. Additionally, the pictures used were small, and lacked diversity in who / what was photographed.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? I believe this article is well-developed. With minor changes I think it would be an excellent article.

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