User:Henhaoji12345/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Legoland New York

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 this article because I've been to the Legoland NY so I felt like I knew what it was talking about and that would make my life way easier. This article matters because there are some things that are unique to the Legoland in NY so when you're looking for something along those lines you know you can find it here and not at the other Legoland pages.

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.)

I feel like the lead does have a introductory sentence that is concise and clearly describes the topic, the sentence cuts right to the point explaining where the theme park is and what the brand is. The whole paragraph then gives more of the overview and basic information like how big it is. Personally, I feel like the last part is a bit unnecessary because it says that the Legoland is targeted towards 2 to 12 but anyone with a ticket can enter and that strikes me as a "duh" kinda thing. Also the fact that 2 is "2" not "two." Overall tho, the lead is concise and straightforward, if I had no idea what I was looking at, after the lead I'd be able to figure out that it is about Legoland NY.

The content is actually pretty well up to date and is for sure relevant to the topic. I feel like the ticket prices should be included (I don't recall seeing anything about how much the ticket prices are and that would probably be useful to add but of course, requires a lot of updating it.) It is also missing the manufacturer for the Jay's Gravity Force Trainer and Duplo express ride.

From other sources, I found that the opening of the Legoland was a major theme park opening, but only for about 40 years, rather than the "in decades" in the article. I don't think there are any tones or bias about the topic.

For sources, the links mostly all work, they were all relevant to where they were linked. It does seem to be accurate as a variety of sites had said the same thing as the one the article wikilinked to. The sources are current enough (for the stuff about opening, the date doesn't matter and if anything, the older the better because the opening date won't change.) A major source they used was the official Legoland, NY website which to be fair, in order for you to find some information you'd have to look there but it makes it less convincing because they are basing off information from the website of the topic they are doing.

The article is very well written, very concise and you'd understand it first time reading through with no prior knowledge. If there were any errors, it wasn't one that I could catch. Personally I feel like the picture of the Statue of Liberty is so random and out of place since right around that area was when rides and everything else was being talked about. I feel like the captions were all good since they were short but effective at explaining what was being seen in the picture.

I feel like overall the article is very good, it's strength lies in the conciseness yet still super informative structure. Improvements are definitely just to add some more detail and polish it up. For example, it says "A trackless dark ride that takes riders on a journey through the production of Lego from the prospective of one. This ride is the first of its kind at a Legoland park and can only be found at Legoland New York. It also uses new advanced ride tracking technology that senses a riders features to match them with Lego minifigures. The ride vehicles are motion enabled and based on real AGV's that operate inside Lego factories." for one of the rides and when I was there I rode it and so I felt like it can be so much more detailed than just what it says. The article is well developed since it only needs minor polishing.