User:Gertrude16/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cockatoo, Victoria

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article because it was a C-rated article so it needs improvement. This would be a good article to evaluate so I could learn from others mistakes. When I first looked at it, I don't find it has much information on it which could be a sign that it needs some work.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section: The lead does have an introductory sentence that is concisely and clearly describing the article's topic. The lead contains one sentence about only one point in the article, so it does not give a brief description of the article's major sections. The lead does not include anything that is not mentioned in the article. The lead is general and does not give an overview of the whole article, so I believe it needs more details to make it better.

Content: The writing in the article is talking about the topic, however it is not up to date (there is some information from 2021). All the content belongs in the article, but there should be more. The history of Cockatoo is broad and should have more details explaining the history behind the town. I think the following content should be added: geography, climate, the type of government and perhaps some information on education, culture, health care, etc.

Tone and Balance: The article is neutral, no claims are heavily biased, nothing is over or under represented, however the article is lacking some more information about the town. The article does not try to persuade its readers into thinking a certain way.

Sources and References: Not all the facts in the article are backed up, most are missing references or if the references are included are not reliable sources. The first source says it has many problems with the article, the second says they may be trying to impersonate someone, the third had very limited information about only the football league and the fourth to sixth reference is all from one source and about one topic and one of them doesn't open. 1 source is current, 2 or not and 3 are all the same source and I'm not sure how up to date it is. The sources are not written by diverse authors and do not provide many information about the article's topic. There is better, more reliable and more relevant sources to explain the article's topic, so to improve this article, one should consider different sources that are reliable.

Organization and Writing Quality: Overall the article is written well, easy to read, has no grammatical errors and no spelling errors. The article is well organized into sections that reflect what is being written about in that section.

Images and Media: The article does include images that align with what is being said in the article but they do not enhance what's is written. All the images are well-captioned and set up to be visually appealing. All images follow Wikipedia's copyright regulations.

Talk Page Discussion: There are not many discussions going on in the talk page, but the ones that are there are notifying people of their changes to the article since there was nothing to back up what the person was saying. The talk page consists of letting people know of their changes and why they made that change. This article is rated C-rated and is part of WikiProject Australian places and WikiProject Victoria, both marked it as low-importance.

Overall Impressions: The article does not have a very high status. Its strengths are the tone and balance, the organization and writing quality and images and media. The article can be improved by making the lead a little more specific to the article and including what is talked about in the article to give the readers a quick overview of what to expect in the article. It also can be improved by adding more content in the article to give more detail about the town (for example, adding a section about geography, culture, type of government and maybe some information on education, culture, health care, etc.). To add, the biggest improvement this article can use is the sources and references. If the sources chosen get improved this will most likely improve the whole article as the sources that are being used right now are not reliable and have very limited information. To add, most of the information in the article is not being referenced so its better sources are found then this can also be fixed and improve the article. Overall, the article is poorly-developed, for the reasons above.