User:Gainag/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I recently completed another assignment focused on the subject of this article.

Evaluate the article
On first glance this article is a well written and unbiased article with abundant citations, but further inspection reveals that it is quite disorganized. The first paragraph of the lead section is concise and gets the point of the article across quickly, but the second paragraph does not belong in the lead section. It describes what organization developed out of and took over for NDIIPP, including further detail about the replacement organization, that has no business being in the lead section and should come later in the article. The two sections that follow, "Overview" and "Congressional Legislation", also do not make much sense. The title "Overview" brings the connotation of discussing the basics of the organization and what its function was. Instead it gives a jumbled history of the formation and activities of the NDIIPP between 1998 and 2009, but it does not include information about the congressional legislation that actually created the NDIIPP in 2000. The authors instead chose to create a second heading that describes that aspect of the NDIIPP history to come after the "Overview" heading, which takes the information presented out of a logical chronological order. Since the NDIIPP no longer exists, this article needs more than just shifting the tense from present to past, it needs to be restructured entirely. The article could be placed into broader section headings that better organize the information, such as: "Mission", "History", "Organization (of partners and participants)", "Programs and Activities", and "Legacy".

While there are frequent citations in the text, there is a textbox at the top of the page that states the articles needs additional citations for verification, suggesting that the citations used are not adequate. Many of the citations are of sources from the Library of Congress website, the parent organization of the article's subject. This does create a potential issue with bias, which was noted on the talk page by a user that identified a straight copy and paste from www.digitalpreservation.gov that included biased language.

The talk page is not incredibly active beyond this instance, with a grand total of 7 entries with the most recent four entries being made on 5-6 May 2019. These last 4 entries focus on edits made to shift the language in the article to past tense because of the end of the program in 2016 and additions of NDIIPP projects that were previously unmentioned. The article is apart of 4 WikiProjects: Libraries, United States/American Cinema, Library of Congress, and Digital Preservation.

This article seems to present a good deal of information about the NDIIPP, but does so in a generally unorganized manner. Restructuring the article and more unbiased sources would help this article immensely.