User:Emily D Smallen/sandbox/article evaluation

Article evaluation: Public Relations

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Everything was relevant to Public Relations, I found it more informative than distracting. The only parts that lost my interest were the history sections it was dull.

• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No, This article didn't have any opinions to assert, if was mostly just facts and what is public relations.

• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? I feel like the salary facts were overrepersented... Just because I lost focus with all the numbers, They could have done with just one small paragraph on the topic.

• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? The links work, They used other Wiki articles to cite in text, Their references were a lot of websites I had never seen or books but seems resourceful.

• Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? Each fact has a source, they are sources that are very specific to what that particular statement is about.

• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? They could probably update their "politics and civil rights" section. They have one case from 1928... I'm sure there's way more current ones to relate to.

• Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? The Talk Page was mostly other editors saying they have found better links for the article or more information for certain sections on the page itself.

• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is a level 4 and a C- Class. It was projects for wiki journalism, wiki marketing and advertising, wiki media and wiki technology Projects.

• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? Wikipedia defines a topic in a short way for someone who needs to know fast and also a long in depth way too. In class we use discussions to learn whereas on Wikipedia you read until you feel like you have the information you need.