User:Folkloree/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I chose to evaluate the "16th Street Baptist Church bombing" article.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
My research team is focusing on the events of September 15th, 1963 which was the day of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

This article has a great lead section that briefly recognizes all topics that will mentioned and is not overly detailed/ It also has a good introductory sentence that is to the point. Furthermore, the article does include a lot of useful information and covers most aspects of the topic. The article does focus much more on the prosecution of the bombers rather than those who were injured or killed in the bombing. However, for an event that occurred over 60 years ago, the article includes very up to date information all the way into the 2000s. In continuation, although this is a somewhat political topic in which the event it is discussing occurred because of racists, the author does a great job at remaining neutral. They present all of the information in the same tone and provide all sides of the story. This article uses over 150 sources ranging in credibility. They use many direct quotes which come from reliable sources. The article is organized and written very clearly/well, but does contain many pictures. The addition of more relevant pictures would improve the quality of the article. The Talk page shows that more information could be included about the response of the KKK to the bombing (whether they took responsibility of not). There is also still uncertainty around the location of one of the victim's bodies which is not discussed in the article. Overall, though, the article is very well put together and thorough. It includes all major information related to the topic.