User:Grandtutor/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gert Town, New Orleans

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This is the article my class worked on collaboratively two years ago. It has not changed much since then, but I would like to improve it beyond the B-class status.

Evaluate the article
The first sentence is too generic, as it could be used for an article about any neighborhood in New Orleans. The lead gives an okay summary, but doesn't not clarify how the article is organized. The lead could be a bit more thorough without becoming overly detailed.

The content is nicely focused on the neighborhood itself, providing information about the geography, history, demographics, and culture of the neighborhood. The demographic information is from the 2010 census, so that will need to be updated after the data from the 2020 census is made publicly available. There do not seem to be major gaps in the content, although there is no discussion of education within the neighborhood, as is common in other neighborhood articles. Since the population of Gert Town is predominantly African-American and working-class, this article does help fill the content gap common in Wikipedia.

The article is predominantly factual, without any issues of one-sidedness. Some of the writing leans toward the writer's bias and needs to be cleaned up to be more neutral.

The article is supported by a thorough set of sources from a diversity of outlets. However, a good number of the citations need to be fixed to work properly and provide the most accurate information about their sources. A few statements are still in need of proper citations. There do not seem to be any dead links on the page.

Some of the writing needs to be fixed at the sentence level, mostly for clarity's sake. The organization makes sense, although as noted above, the structure would be more balanced with some more content coverage, such as the educational options for the residents, the various streets that run through the neighborhood, and the religious options for the neighborhood.