User:Jayla987/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
2007 NBA betting scandal

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 am a fan of the basketball and the NBA, so I thought it would be cool to read about something from the NBA. I also did not know there was a scandal in 2007, so I thought this would be a interesting read. My impressions of the article was that it was well written. Within the first paragraph I knew exactly what the article was going to be about.

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 intro in the article does give me a main idea of what is going to be talked about. It also does provide a contents of each section, so I know from the beginning what will be talked about in this article.

The content of this article is all related to the topic. Every part talks about what Tim Donaghy did and what was the outcome of what he did. The content it self is up to date. Each part that is talked about has a good amount of detail, and it very strait forward and has a neral view point.

The tone overall is good, there is no bias options. The views the article have a neutral view. Every part is straight forward and not leading me to believe in a one-sided view.

Most of the source for this article are from ESPN. Also, New York Times, New York Daily News, Yahoo News, CBS News, and CNN were also used as sources. All sources are from a reliable sources. Even though the article uses ESPN as its main source, this is okay since the articles topic is about the NBA and a scandal that happened in the NBA. ESPN would probably be the best source to use, but more than just ESPN is used so this gives us a different perspective. Most of the sources are from 2007, some are from 2008 and 2009. Since this article is talking a scandal event from 2007 I would expect most of the sources to be from 2007. All links work as well in this article. Also the is a link to Sean Patrick talking about gambling in the games. Sean Patrick has written a book about the betting scandal in the NBA.

The article is very organize. It is very easy to read as well. There are no grammar or spelling errors. The article is broken down into 3 sections, which are all related the the main topic its self.

The article only has one image, which is of Tim Donaghy, the referee that betted on his own games that officiated. The image just shows how the guy looks so I don't think it necessary adds a lot to the topic. But, yet again I don't think there are many pictures you could add to to enhance the article. The image does have a caption, of the referee's name. The image is also laid out in a good way, it is off to the right.

On the Talk page one person asked if this page is really need or it could just be added to Tim Donaghy's page. The respond to this was that the scandal is to big to be with Tim Donaghy's page, so it can stand alone as its own. Someone also mention to add about the fixing of 2002 and 2005 playoff games to his article. The article is rated high GA-class and it belongs to the National Basketball Association WikiProject.

Overall the article was good. It gave a good amount of information about what the scandal was, who did the scandal and how. Also I liked how the articles tells what happen as a result of the scandal for the NBA as well as for Tim Donaghy. The article also told the sentencing for Donaghy. One way I think the article can be improved is by deleting the part towards the end about how easy it is to "fix a game". This feels out of place and probably shouldn't be there. The article is very complete, and well developed.