User:EthanKoe/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Jaco Pastorius)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(I chose this article because I found it in the section of articles that needed some work, and I am interested in this musician and his legacy.)

Evaluate the article
(For this article, the lead section does a great job of what it is supposed to be doing. Firstly, the topic sentence does a really good job of what it is supposed to do, It introduces the topic where it is understood what the rest of the article will be about. And I feel that the whole first section fulfills all of the necessary requirements being concise and outlining well what will be discussed later on in the article.

I feel that a big problem with the article is that is occasionally will provide some facts or information that is just plainly irrelevant to the topic and what is being talked about. For example, in the section where it is talking about Jaco's early life, It states "Early American abolitionist Francis Daniel Pastorius is his ancestor". I feel that when this happens, it distracts from the topic being discussed and is completely unnecessary. I would say that the topic is pretty up to date, and that there are no significant or glaring cases of huge gaps in information.

This article is very neutral, and does not show any trace of any bias in a particular direction or side.

The sources for this article seem very good, they have some that are as old as 1995 but as new as 2022, and old sources work for this topic since it is about a person. All of the links for the sources that I checked worked and they all seemed to come from a variety of areas, such as books, articles, and videos. I wasn't able to find too many better sources for this topic, and didn't find any peer reviewed journals regarding the topic.

The article doesn't have any glaring spelling or grammatical errors. I feel that the article's organization of its subtopic is pretty good. I feel that what can be improved is that occasionally, the writing feels a little disjunct. Sometimes I feel that the writing can be a little hard to follow and seems a little random, without much connecting it together.

The images in the article are relevant to the article and do well showcasing some of the things that were present. They seem to be captioned correctly. I would suggest to change some of the photos to not have too many photos of him, and for example to have some photos of some of his bands or his famous "Bass of Doom".

The talk section is relatively short and just is talking about small disputed facts. This article is rated as a c class article

I think that overall this article needs some refining. I feel that it could provide some better and more relevant facts, and do away with some of the random ones. I also feel that the phots can be altered and the writing quality can be improved a bit. I think the strengths of the article is that it has a good organization and the different sub sections I feel are what should be present here. Overall, the article is okay, but needs a good amount of work.)