User:Jabalakhdar/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
1966 FIFA World Cup Final

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The article is rated a C-Class. I would like to see why it is rated as so. In addition, I am a huge football fan; although I am not an England supporter, I can appreciate the historic event, which occurred this summer, of their first football final appearance since the 1966 World Cup Final.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of the article is clear and concise and gives a good overview of the event. The lead section summaries the whole article taking out the key points from each of the other sections. However, it does mention the Euro 2020 finals which is not mentioned in the rest of the article. This piece of information also seems irrelevant to the topic at hand. All of the other information in the rest of the article is both relevant and up to date. In addition to this, the article cites credible sources such as FIFA and the BBC. The article does feel slightly biased towards the English team. The article frames the English team as heroes and mentions how important the game was to England, mentioning it as the most viewed event on British TV and stating that England did not concede a goal in the tournament until the Semi-Final (which could easily be inferred by the reader from the 'Road to the Final' section). This may be stemmed from the use of the BBC, as well as other mainstream British news sources, for research and the lack of use of German sources. The article is, however, both well organised and written. The sentences are concise, clear and relevant to both the topic and their respective subtopics. The use of images is effective, for the most part, specifically in the match summary section where a graphic of the players and their respective positions is given. There once again is, however, a hint of English bias in the images used; an image of the English football team's kit is provided but one for the West Germany kit is not. In addition to this, there is only an image of an English goal given despite West Germany scoring in the match too.

This article would benefit from a more neutral stance on the topic and more fact driven approach. The event is of course significant in English history yet the event had had two sides partaking in it. The article should be built on the Match Summary section as it is a good foundation of a fact based approach and recount of the match. A more balanced recount can be achieved by taking a look at German media sources rather than solely English media.