User:Flamingo Cregg/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Police brutality by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_by_country

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it is a topic I know and care about because it is important for being able to understand the global politics of policing. My first impression of this article was that it is very incomplete and only includes small pieces of information about specific periods of time in only a handful of countries. I am aware of far more scholarly sources, databases, and grey literature that could strengthen this article.

Lead section
This article is categorized as a list which could be why it lacks a more developed lead section. Prior to the list of countries with incidents of police brutality, what currently appears to be the lead section is only one brief, vague sentence: "Notable cases of police brutality have occurred in various countries." This section could be improved by citing the burgeoning literature on comparative studies of police brutality around the world or with leading databases that track and crowdsource this information on an ongoing basis.

Content
The content is relevant to the topic although it is a very big topic to cover for each individual country. The content is not up to date. There are only some countries with some incidents of police brutality listed, and they all cover varying moments or periods of time. The topic of police brutality relates to historical and contemporary oppression of marginalized groups around the world, so it is important when addressing Wikipedia's equity gaps. There are some countries that have links to main articles with slightly more detail, but others that don't. There are some countries with more extensive timelines of incidents of brutality (especially those in Europe, such as Italy), but most countries only have an incident or two listed, while many others have a few sentences about the national police agency (such as Ethiopia), or a single sentence (such as Uganda and Iraq). Other countries have a sub-sub-section for history, legislation, data, and specific categories of issues (such as Poland and the UK).

Tone and Balance
The article includes lists of incidents of police brutality and these are backed by human rights reports, news coverage, and data collection, so there is not an issue with fringe viewpoints or a persuasive tone. There is not much analysis of the incidents beyond reporting the facts.

Sources and References
There is far more available literature on this topic. Most sources are from mainstream news outlets and some are from human rights organizations (e.g., Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations). Most sources are not current and only cover a limited number of specific incidents on select dates. There are only a few scholarly sources out of the 386 sources cited. There are far more peer-reviewed articles as well that have been emerging in recent years that identify the systemic and global nature of police brutality.

Organization and writing quality
There is much room for improvement around organization under each country because it varies wildly in scope, chronology, and coverage. There is also room for more copyediting.

Images and Media
Given the length of the article, there are surprisingly few images and only one table, while almost all other sub-sections are divided into paragraphs of text and lists.

Talk page discussion
The talk page is blank and the article is rated List-class with interest to three WikiProjects.

Overall impressions
There is a banner at the top of the page indicating that the article has "multiple issues," including cleanup, language, specificity, and need for updates. I would agree with this assessment. There is another article linked at the top with the statement, "For a chronological guide, see List of cases of police brutality by date" and I'm not sure how these pages fit together because they both cover incidents of police brutality very incompletely. There are also crowdsourced data projects that are more regularly and rigorously collecting this data. There is a similar C-rated page on Police brutality that has spotty and incomplete coverage.