User:JTPeach/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Internet fraud

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
While I am not an expert on the topic, I know that internet fraud is a big issue that effects people everyday. What's scary is that internet fraud exists on all corners of the internet and a lot of it is not what people would expect. A simple ad on a website could be fraud of some kind. That's the reason why I picked this topic, well it's one of the reasons. That kind of stuff fascinates me.

Evaluate the article
After looking at the article, the status of the page is mixed. It list the many different types of fraud, the information around surrounding these different types ranges from medium too not enough. That probably has to do with the fact that some of the articles listed in the references are very short. A couple are also from 2016. Not too bad, but considering the ever changing landscape of the internet, I'd expect more current articles. Now that being said, there was at least one article from 2020. Also, the links to these references work, so that's a plus. If were talking about other positive attributes, most of the topics drawl the reader in with statistics and real life events. However, statistics seem to be the only thing present in a few places. Also, the first topic, talking about charity fraud starts off awkwardly. There is a whole separate article on that, but they could have done a better job with the beginning. There is only one image of a demonstration. To be honest, I'm not sure what else they could of filled in there, so I don't have much to say there. The caption under it does a good job explaining it. Personally, more information is the key to make this article stronger. It's on the right track, it just needs to go farther. When looking at the talk pages, they had the same sentiments as me, only they went farther, speaking of which, they wanted the articles to go farther with the details of the different frauds. They also point out that some examples they gave where irrelevant, or rather, there were better examples out there.