User:HelloWorld194/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Linked list

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.)

I chose to evaluate this article because I have a deep understanding of the material. This is a topic that I am able to read about and understand, allowing me to evaluate it better than other topics. Linked lists are an integral data structure in computer science, so it's important that the wiki page is top notch for future learners.

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.)

The wiki article for linked lists is generally well-written. However, there was a paragraph in the wiki that distracted me from the main premise of the article. For example, I found "Linked lists are among the simplest and most common data structures. They can be used to implement several other common abstract data types, including lists, stacks, queues, associative arrays, and S-expressions, though it is not uncommon to implement those data structures directly without using a linked list as the basis" to be distracting and it doesn't add much value to the wiki. Additionally, the "History" section is unnecessarily long and retracts from the main point of the article. Besides this, the rest of the article is incredibly well written and contains everything that I would consider. If anything, I would include some popular algorithms associated with linked lists, such as reversal and the slow/fast pointer algorithms.

One gripe that I have with the sources is that all of the external sources are links to other Wikipedia articles. In general, relying on one source is frowned upon due to its lack of diversity, but in this case, diversity is achieved through its many authors throughout the many sources.

In the "talk" page of the wiki article, there is not much discussion happening there. It is rated as a B-class article, which is appropriate since it requires some computer science knowledge before being able to delve into the subject.