User:Dovewalker11/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
William DuBois (architect)

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 am interested in the history of architects and their projects in Wyoming which have been a fascination of mine for many years.

A subject within this category may well be the focus of my wiki-editing experience in this class.

My preliminary impression was that it covers Mr. DuBois career well.

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 is well-composed, concise, relevant and doesn't contain any non-article information of the subsequent sections. All the content appears relevant and interesting to the target audience with multiple avenues for further research if desired.

Additional coverage of his legislative career is probably not done because it may have little or no relevance to his business career.

I would have liked to see a little more detail in the personal life and legacy categories, but what is there is pertinent and useful.

The thirty-odd buildings listed in the architectural works section are a good and varied sampling of the types of projects he did in his career.

I see that a few of his known works are missing which could be expected to appear in the list, but don't. [One is  the Masonic Temple at the corner of 19th and Capitol in Cheyenne, WY).

However, readers are re-directed to additional information in that area.

The overall tone and balance of coverage is neutral and professional. There is no introduction of bias for or against any topic offered.

Sources are sufficient, but they could, in my opinion, be expanded to include more than just National Historic Places applications and records. There are only a couple that refer to literary works on the topic.

The links I tested worked as expected and didn't lead to dead ends or bad connections or links that simply didn't go anywhere.

Media pictures are well presented and seem to be properly annotated for sourcing and copyright information.

Talk page discussion shows that it is an article related to several wiki-projects in diverse areas of interest, including biography, arts/entertainment, Wyoming, architecture and the NRHP most of which list this article as a stub-page with fairly low importance to each subject except the NRHP where it has related-importance. There is a note that asks for a photograph to be added, and I'm assuming that it's for Mr. Dubois, himself - this is perhaps something that I could add to the page later.

On the talk page in the notes area, there is a conversation on the discrepancies within the attribution of buildings to this architect in the NRHP, revolving around the proper middle initial to be used and/or whether the attribution is accurate. A further note indicates that the accurate capitalization of this person's name is probably Dubois not DuBois and could lead to a change in the title of the page.

The last edit on the talk page is from August of 2022.