User:Cunningseafarer12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Here is the article that I am reviewing: Trunk Bay

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 found this article after going down a bit of a rabbit hole looking at the US Virgin Island Wikipedia page. I was hoping to find an article to analyze that was on the more specific end of things. I was looking at the US Virgin Islands Wikipedia page as I have spent a little bit of time in the US and British Virgin Islands on a sailboat so I thought it would be interesting to look back on and learn more about.

This article is important for tourists or people who are interested in St. John as it could provided them information about a bay they may want to visit.

My preliminary impression of the article was that I enjoyed the fact that there were images included in the article. Also, I noticed that there was some information about this bay but it likely could use more.

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.)

The lead section in this article provides a concise overview of Trunk Bay. Since this article is short, the lead section contains most of the information about the bay and does not include an overview of the sections to come. I think the first sentence in the lead section is a good introduction sentence as it explains what Trunk Bay is and where it is located.

The article's content seems up to date and relevant information about Trunk Bay. The article does not deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps. Overall, I think there could be more content added about Trunk Bay. Specifically, I think it could be important to add how to access the bay, when it is most crowded/popular, and more.

The article is neutral. There are not claims made in the article that seem heavily biased to one point of view. There are no viewpoints over represented or minor viewpoints presented. The article does not attempt to persuade the reader.

Most of the facts in the article are supported by one of the sources used in Reference section. I have noticed that the last sentence in the Trunk Cay section is missing a citation. The sources are not super current as the ones that are dated are form 2016/2017. I think it could be important to have more current sources in this article since the US Virgin Islands have experienced some catastrophic hurricanes since then which could have greatly impacted the bay. The article uses two book sources that are cited but I personally was having issues with the links and finding the books. The other sources include the National Park Service and articles written by News outlets. These are not scholarly articles but I think that it could be hard to find scholarly articles for this topic. A source that could be good to use for this article is one from the US Virgin Island tourism website about Trunk Bay.

The article is concise, well organized, and clearly written. I did not notice any spelling errors.

The images are not well captioned. The one image embedded in the article is simply captioned "Trunk Bay". Some of the images in the gallery have better captions but some are missing captions completely.

There is nothing going on in the talk page.

The article's overall status is that it is of Mid-Importance because it is a protected area. Overall, I think more information could be added to this page using sources from more trusted resources such as the office US Virgin Islands tourism website. This would help the article's completeness as it is not currently very complete.