User:Gianni dejesus/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Regulation

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

The reason why I chose this article to evaluate is that it pertains to the topics we have covered within this class. We have been tackling the idea of regulations this week alone. Regulation is also a big topic now since many policies are being passed where the internet is being regulated based on the content they have. This matters since we have come to a point where it needs to be moderated and regulated. There is content being posted that is harmful to people and creating a unsafe place on the internet. My first impression of this article is that it gives us the basic information we need to know about regulation, but doesn’t give us any more than that. We are not given in-depth and not as clear when reading. The article could indeed be worked on to be better and provide more information about regulation.

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 does need work to fit the criteria of it being a useful Wikipedia article. We can start by mentioning how it mentions different types of regulations which only includes about four. We are not given much more information then that and doesn’t go into much depth about them either. This article also fails to mention topics like safety regulations which should be added since it is a regulation. It not only seems to be confusing and missing information, it is an article that is poorly written. A proficient article isn’t confusing to read and uses phrases that seem to be too ambiguous. There are many types of regulations as well and those should be mentioned. It seems to be all over the place and is missing important information that can help the reader truly gain an understanding of what regulation is. The views seem to be underrepresented within this writing. It lacks media and images which can help this page be more visually appealing. When it comes to content and resources this has a mixture of up-to-date resources and older resources. I do believe there can be more added since there is much more information about regulations at this time. I also think the resources could be redone as well since some of them don’t look as legit as others. This article needs to be overhauled and add in more content that is relevant and up to date. Even the lead section needs more since it just offers a short description and bullet points of four types of regulations. As I checked through the talk page I see that many others have similar opinions and think this page needs some work. Many found it confusing, failed to mention certain topics, resources that need to be checked, and much more. This is a topic that contains a lot of information and this article doesn’t represent that. Overall, this Wikipedia page indeed needs improvements especially in terms of content. It has a good foundation, but it needs work to be able to be considered a useful page.

You have some good ideas here but I wonder if a subtopic of "media relation" or "internet regulation" might be more relevant to this class. --Renee Hobbs