User:Darius Crew/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)National Basketball Association - Wikipedia

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.)

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 Section

The article starts off by talking about what the NBA is, how many teams its composed of, and how it impacts our world today.

Yea and provides links to go to cite that topic.

No

concise

Content

Yes, the content is relevant

I don't think the content is up to date

There are some teams that don't belong in the article because they are not currently teams today and theres not really much information about the current NBA and it talks about older players who are no longer in the league.

Yes it does

Tone and Balance

Yes

It mostly focuses on the male aspects and don't really talk about women but then again there aren't any woman in the NBA

They barely present how the teams that where mentioned how they are today.

yes

It puts a lot of attention on specific players such a Micheal Jordan and Bill Russell.

Sources and References

yes

yes

The sources aren't current

No but it does include historical ball players

There are a few but not many

Yes

Organization and Writing Quality

yes, the article is very well written despite the sources.

No spelling errors

the article is very well organized.

Images and Media

yes lots of images

yes it gives a great description up under it

yes

Yes in every image they have each ball players doing some sort of action.

Talk Page Discussion

You can tell it needs some work done to it but it's not too bad

This article was interested by 4 Wiki projects and was a good article nominee

NBA was a sports and recreation good article nominee but did not meet the good article criteria at the time but still has potential and can be renominated.

Overall Impressions

NBA has been listed as a level 4 vital article in life.

citing other links

by adding more pictures and listing up to date.

I think this article is well developed and i could make this article better by adding more up to date research and pictures.