User:EyobKeflinkiel/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

Destiny (video game)

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 choose this article to evaluate because I have extensive knowledge of the game, from playing it for  over  7 years. Why it maters ? To many people destiny is a great way to interact with many different people due to it being online. In my own experience I have made

many Online friends from playing online. My first impression of the article was that it was good.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

The lead section for this article is good. It gets straight to the point, within the first few sentences you already know what the article is talking about. All of the content is a summarized version of the content that is the main body of the article. The lead has just enough information that you get a good understanding what the games is but not enough to over stimulate the reader with information. It gets the reader interested in the rest of the article.

Content:

The content of the article is very well written there is nothing there that is out of place. It talks about the history of development, the gameplay pvp and pve, player reception at launch, and even the soundtrack. All the content seems to be up to date for exaple the article talks about bungie becoming a self publishing studio that happened in 2019 but this article has it so it seems to be up to date. I would say no there is no major content that is missing, the article covers all the big things about the game that are important. No the article does not deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps.

Tone and Balance:

The article does seem to be written in a neutral point of view it does not specify that the game is good or bad it just gives you information about the game. Not the article does not try to sway the reader in any direction

Sources and References:

since this is an article about a videogame there are not many academic sources you can get, This explains why a lot of the references are new articles from video game websites and video game journalists. even though they are video game websites and journalists there are some reputable publishers like Forbes or The Washington post.

organization:

the article is very well organized all the different parts are put into their own sections each having one topic they talk about without mixing to many thing together. this made the article very easy to read and understand.

Images and media:

In the article there were some pictures included. The pictures had captions under them explaining what the picture was about. Yes it would seem that the article does adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations. the article could improve on the way the pictures are laid out. It seems that they were placed all to the right side of the article. i think they could of added more through out the article so that it would not be a big block of text.

talk page:

The talk page of the destiny article does have some conversations but it would seem that they are all very old some of them being from 2013 and 2014, this would make sense because destiny has been inactive since the second game has come out in 2017. The article is rated B-class This means that Wikipedia sees this as a good article but could use some improvements to make it better.

my overall impressions of this article is that it was good for what it is covering. The article gives you all the important information about the game without trying to sway in any direction.