User:Eponiatowski/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am interested in administrative agencies, and I generally use Wikipedia to do some initial background research when approaching a project for work or school.

Evaluate the article
The article's lead section contains a relatively detailed description of what the CFPB is, what it does and how it came to be. Overall, the article appears to be neutral in tone, though the quality of the writing overall was a bit more informal than I would expect to see on Wikipedia. There were several improperly-formatted quotations throughout. I checked several links to cited sources and they all worked properly. The "mortgages" subsection of the "Regulatory Activities" section of the article is quite short and lacking citations to other sources. There is already a notice from Wikipedia indicating that this section requires expansion, and I agree, seeing as this is a primary portion of the CFPB's responsibilities. The Talk Page for the article was interesting to me, and some of the discussion there involved the controversy surrounding who should be named Director of the CFPB during the Trump administration. Additionally, a commentor who purportedly worked for the agency suggested a large amount of edits to the article, noting that much of the information in the article at the time was outdated. Several commentors debated on whether or not such large amounts of information should or could be changed at once.