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Tiskilwa, Illinois

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This town I consider a second home due to it having a special place in my heart. I started Visiting this town when I was little because my dads friend has a farm there that we go to for hunting and fishing. I've always called the farm heaven because it is a place where I don't have any worries or concerns and I have time to enjoy nature.

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This article does in fact have a really good lead sentence into the article, I love how it explains the major parts such as the population and county it is in. The article does in fact have a brief glossary of everything you would need to know and can easily skip to that section of the article. A few little things can be fixed and updated such as these things are outdated by a couple years. The lead is very concise and isn't in any way overly detailed, it gets straight to the point which I really like going into articles since I don't like to read a bunch of nonsense that isn't necessary.

The articles content is very relevant and has a bunch of key points such as history and festivals that make the article stand out a lot to me. Some of the content could be updated a little but for the most part it is up to date and is very informative of key parts. One thing that definitely has to be updated is the population could be updated to 2022 instead of 2020 and also the village officials. In my opinion I don't think anything really needs to be added and everything that is in the article is a key point about the village of Tiskilwa and deserves to be explained. The history I fell can be changed a little and add the explanation of the origin of the Native Americans that the village is named after. It doesn't explain in enough detail about that as much as just the town itself. As for the population needs to be updated to the current population instead of keeping it at 2020's population.

All of the article is neutrally written as it is hard to try to make an article of a town anti-neutral, especially with it being such a small town, there isn't much to hold against it. None of the article seems in any way biased as it talks about the history, it all seems to explain it in a positive tone and is very in depth with how the festivals celebrate in a positive environment. The viewpoints under the history section I feel could explain a little bit more about how the tribe of Natives could be talked about since the village was named after the Native tribe. he viewpoints are from the people that live in the village and as for what they look like or how the tone of the article was written, but for the most part it includes all positive tones to my knowledge. Looking at the article I can't find one good negative point on the viewpoint of the village. It is kind of hard to persuade someone about a little town but I guess you could say since every bit of the article was in a positive tone that it could be persuasive to visit the town.

The links to the articles seem to be very trustworthy as they are official website written by people who visited the place and enjoy it very much. Everything I could read off of the article was stated in a clear way from the linked articles and said in a way where it is in different words which makes the possibility of plagiarism impossible. The linked website in the sources seem to explain the different research that went into the article and seems to be official website of the town such as the official website of The History of Tiskilwa and the Tiskilwa Public Library. Yes the external links are up to date except for one of the links which brings you to an article about a train derailment that happened in 2011 but as for if the article necessarily needs to be updated, it seems everything on the article is true and does not need to be updated. The articles aren't necessarily in a way where there is a bunch of links leading to different articles, but the links lead to official websites within the town such as The History of Tiskilwa and the Tiskilwa Public Library which both have explanations of the town on them and are very trustworthy websites. The links are in working order and bring you yo the exact pages.

he article is very clear on how it was written, it is very easy to read and there are no confusing statements as of my point of view. The article doesn't have any grammatical errors to my knowledge and spelling is all correct. The article is very well-organized, the author breaks it down piece by piece with sections containing specific topic about the little town. It is very clear that the author knew what they were doing and had no intension of trying to be oblivious of potential errors.

The article gives clear images that go perfectly with the topics, there are captions underneath explaining the images and what is in the image. The images are perfectly organized and follow the copyright regulations. The images are perfectly laid out in positions where its very easy to see that it belongs to that specific topic. Nothing seems to be off about them and I like that they included photos of the exact topic and nothing unrelated to the topic is in the background of the photos.

he articles status is pretty active, was last edited in 2022. The strengths of the article are mainly how they went about making the different sections, but also the way they inferred it. It is very well written and informative of a lot of the major points that needed to be made. I would say a couple of the main flaws are that some of the info needs to be updated, but also could have some info added to it about the history of the natives that the town is named after. I thought the whole origin of the towns name was super interesting but its hard to exactly find any information on a native tribe that lived there long before us. The article is basically complete except for the flaws I pointed out, but for the most part it was well-organized and well written.