User:Ijggrz/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Aeritalia F-104S Starfighter - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I needed a lower quality article review as well as a love for military technology and science. I love learning about different types of experiments and technologies that world militaries come up with to solve a solution or 'advance' a topic.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of this article is pretty good, briefly explaining what the aircraft was and where it was in service. The lead section does not break down the articles sections itself, but does discuss information that is used later in the article.

The article uses only relevant information for this aircraft, but only really discusses small amounts of information about the aircraft itself. The writer talks about the different specs of the aircraft itself and some operational and prior history to explain why the plane was created but not much else.

The article doesn't seem to be biased in any matter, and only states facts about the aircraft.

There are a few references and sources used in this article, many being from accredited UK aeronautical writers and societies. But on of the references comes from an "Air Enthusiast" magazine or journal.

The organization is pretty good and has decent writing to explain the different portions of the article, but mostly relies on the specs and characteristics of the aircraft to be put into bulleted lists.

The article has a few images, mostly of the planes, but does include one groundwork drawing to show the pre-build plane. I don't believe this is the original and is one the writer found from some secondary source.

The article has a C, almost B, rating mainly due to the lack of citations and references. This is pretty obvious as many of the sources are poorly chosen and there may be other sources that would better be used for this article. On the talk page itself there is only one discussion, and it is a question from a user asking why the other switched from empirical to metric measurements randomly in the article.

I'd say the article has a correct grading of C, because while the given information over the aircraft itself is very well discussed, there isn't a lot of information about much else. I think that the author and other editors could try to find more sources to discuss different missions that these aircraft have been involved in or maybe some other aspects of the history of the plane. They mostly lack information about the creation other than that many countries were trying to move on from its predecessor and that it had been used by Turkey and Italy for a stretch of time.