User:Emph0218/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Bands of America

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this because marching band was a huge part of my high school career, and I am still keeping up with the competitions and events. I was in my high school marching band, in which we competed in the largest event provided for a high school marching band, Grand National Championships. We won 1st in our class and 22nd overall, which is a huge accomplishment for a small town high school band compared to others we competed against. My first impression is that it is a decent article, but the awards have not been updated since 2019. Everything else is up to date (2021 events as 2022 events start this month), so it may be possible they have not been awarded anything since before COVID-19.

I wrote that information Thursday in class. While going through the article Monday morning, I noticed the awards no longer go until 2019. they now only list until 2006. It says the article has not been edited since February 1st 2022, so this may have been me reading incorrectly, but I thought that was really strange that all that just disappeared.

Evaluate the article
I think the article is overall very well written and well-developed. There are a few typos that could be approved upon and a few missing awards from competitions in the 1980's. It has a lot of necessary information to the topic and barely any unnecessary information. It covers the history, the scoring process, and champions from every Grand Nationals Championship since the activity has started. It even covers almost every champion from the Summer National Championships, which lasted every summer from 1980 to 1989. There are three missing from the 1989 competition, but other than that they are not missing anything. I think adding awards that have been given to staff members, sponsors, teachers, etc. would be a great addition to the article. There are very minimal photos, the only ones being of the Bands of America logo and the Music for All logo. Adding some pictures of the competitions, Lucas Oil Stadium, performances or performers, or other related things would also be a great addition. FloMarching is also a great source corresponding with Bands of America.