User:Dmar24/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Immigration Act of 1990

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the Immigration Act of 1990 because it was very astonishing what it did, it helped permit the entry of 20 million people over the next two decades. It increased total, overall immigration to allow 700,000 immigrants to come to the U.S. per year for the fiscal years 1992–94, and 675,000 per year after that. It provided family-based immigration visa, created five distinct employment based visas, categorized by occupation, and a diversity visa program that created a lottery to admit immigrants from "low admittance" countries or countries whose citizenry was underrepresented in the U.S. The Immigration Act of 1990 was a significant milestone, representing the first major overhaul of the U.S. legal immigration system in a quarter-century. The law aimed to create a selection system that would meet the future needs of the economy by moving away from a near-total focus on family-based immigration and toward admission of more immigrants based on their skills and education. Since the law was passed, Congress has not significantly revised the U.S. immigrant selection system. My preliminary impression of it was it can be very helpful for immigrants from countries where the United States did not often grant visas/

Evaluate the article

Lead Section:

-The lead does include sentences that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic.

-The lead includes somewhat of a brief description of the article's major sections. It gives more description on the nonimmigrant visas than the other major sections.

-The lead includes information present in the article

-The lead is concise

Content:

-The article's content is relevant to the topic

-The article is up-to-date. The last revision was May 2022, and throughout 2018-2021.

-There is content missing such as how it passed, who proposed it, how did it get through Congress.

-It does address topics related throughout the history of the Immigration Act of 1990

Tone and Balance

-The article is Neutral

-No, there are no claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position

-I feel that the section "Comments from the Bush Administration" is underrepresented. George Bush seems to be a big part of this Immigration Act and more could be presented on that.

-No, the article does not attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another, it is neutral

Sources and References

-Yes, all facts in the article are backed up by a reliable secondary source of information

-The sources are thorough

-Yes, the sources vary from the years 1990-2015

-The sources are written by a diverse spectrum of authors

-The links below are scholarly articles, which can be better sources

https://col-oakland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COL_OAKLAND/edpd1e/cdi_webofscience_primary_A1992GR52100002

https://col-oakland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COL_OAKLAND/edpd1e/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_60249244

https://col-oakland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COL_OAKLAND/edpd1e/cdi_jstor_primary_23140977

Organization and writing quality:

-The article is well written, concise, clear, and easy to read

-The article does not have any grammatical or spelling errors

-The article is well-organized it is a pretty simple lay out. Major topics mentioned in the introduction were split into different sections.

Images and Media:

-The article provides lots of images if you hold the mouse over the blue highlighted words. It also provides a small bar graph to the right on the number of foreign-born in U.S. labor force

-The images are well-captioned

-The images do adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations

-Yes, when you hold the mouse over the blue highlighted words, the picture will be to the right with the description to the left, or the picture is above with the description below

Talk page discussion:

-A conversation that can be discussed about how to represent this topic is: What are the major provisions did the 1990 Immigration Act put forward? What is one potential long-term impact of the diversity visa program? What is one potential long-term impact of the H-1B visa? Why did this new Immigration Act get enforced? What does the Immigration Act of 1990 reflect?

-It is not part of any WikiProjects

-How it is different from discussing it in class is we talk about the brief subject of it such as what it is and why it was passed and who passed it. On the other hand, wikipedia gives us the detailed information on all those topics.

Overall Impressions:

-The article's overall status is good

-The article's strengths is it provides pictures, it provides the acts of provisions, it provides the major sections, it was clear and concise

-How it can be improved is, looking at more scholarly articles for more information on House or Senate and Congress. That way you can have a more detailed wikipedia page

-The article is a bit underdeveloped-it did not mention how it passed, who proposed it, how did it get through Congress, etc.