User:DJWellaaa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
1986 New York Mets season

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
As a Mets fan, this is a moment in history I know enough about to be able to discern if anything is amiss in this article

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.)

Lead line


 * solid opening

content


 * definitely thorough enough into the topic
 * offers charts and graphs that are accurate
 * detailed information about the entire season

tone and balance


 * feels too storylike
 * not neutral
 * too many "but thens"
 * "Former Mets favorite Lee Mazzilli returned."

sources and references


 * sources seem good
 * multiple links worked

organization and writing quality


 * "In the top of the fourteenth, Howard Johnson hit a home run to put the Mets on top."
 * too casual in the way this article is written/talks about the players

images and media


 * no cover photo
 * only picture ray knight and vin scully-- no actual met images

talk page


 * several mentions of tone
 * photo issue-- bill buckner copyright issue
 * offers explanation of why: "The image Image:Billbuckner.jpg is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check: That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article. That this article is linked to from the image description page."

overall impressions

this article is good but would be better with the fixing of the flowery language and application of a more neutral tone

also needs more pictures of the team