User:Jhope54/Evaluate an Article

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600 home run club

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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I have chosen this article to evaluate because while I am not only interested in baseball, this specific section of baseball history isn't very expansive and forms an elite group of members. It matters because all members of the 600 homer club have accomplished an act that very few other people have in all of history and so that action deserves to be recorded and remembered correctly. My initial impression of the article was that the beginning has a voice that sounds slightly opinionated while the rest of the article reads mainly as just facts being listed off in chronological order which works well for getting to the information.

Evaluate the article
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The lead section of the article concisely characterizes what the 600 club is in baseball. While the lead does mention some of the members of the club, it does not list all of them to start. The article includes information about some of the members other achievements in baseball, but this does go unreferenced later on in the article and seems to stand as a throw away fact. The article does not attempt to paint any of the members in any kind of light, instead only representing the facts of the situation, including mention of some of the members use of steroids and the reasoning why they may not be in the hall of fame. All of the articles content is relative and up to date to the current facts of the topic, there is no information that seems missing in reference to the main focus of the article. The tone fo the article does not attempt to sway the reader in any direction, it offers the facts of the members of the 600 home run club, and does make mention of some of the players who have documented steroid use, but it does not portray that situation in any other light than factual. All links that I tested for the article worked correctly. Any information that is presented is backed up by a credible source, often times a primary source, that explains the facts of the situation at the time each event happened, specially the date and game the players entered the 600 home run club. The organization of the article is noticeably quality, it first delves into the history of the club and then gives a brief description of each member. There are sections that feel somewhat out of place in the conversation of the 600 home run club that perhaps should belong somewhere else, but it all is useful information in reference to the players within the club. The images included do enhance the topic that is being covered, however it seems as though more images could have benefitted the article as there is likely images from nearly all of the instances of a player entering the club. All images adhere to the copyright guidelines and are captioned in a way that give further depth and understanding. In the talk page, very little is going on behind the scenes beyond the creator wanting to switch the articles title to something more official. The article rates at a C and is only mildly important to Wikiprojects regarding baseball as a whole. I imagine the C rating comes from the unnecessary information being included along with quality information. I believe the strength of the article is the information and thought behind the information being presented. It is clear what the article is about and some of the information included is very helpful. Where the article can be improved is in the focus, there are sections that go beyond the idea of the 600 home run club and border on being opinionated, if the article was kept the same length but the off topic information was more focused on the topic itself I believe it would be a more useful and rounded article as a whole. The article in terms of development is at a good starting point, but another round of editing and the addition of more focused information is required. Immediately I think removing topics on the steroid era and focuses on the accomplishment itself would help, along with each player having there own individual section coupled with more available image or footage of the events occurring where applicable.