User:Jnsellers/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ricardo Caputo

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.)

It's crucial that those in the forensic and criminal justice field remain educated and informed, so that they have a better understanding of why people do the things that they do. It's also crucial that professionals are able to adequately determine anyone that may be deemed unfit to stand trial, specifically when they are not able to plead insanity. More information needs to be available on this subject in order to possibly aid similar situations in the future. My preliminary impression was that the article was seriously lacking in depth.

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 lead section of the article is a bit jostled. The statement that claims that the brother of Caputo shared that he was sexually and physically abused as a child seems ill placed. If the article had more sections, it would have been wiser to put this information under a section concerning why Caputo behaved in the ways he did. In general, the article lacks depth. Why was Caputo found to be unfit to stand trial? This is another section that needs to be introduced. Under the victims section, after it lists the name of Natalie Brown, it says in parentheses that he was found unfit and then escaped a psychiatric unit. This is information that should be placed in a separate section. There are no photos in this article, which I'm sure could easily be found. This is the only real suggestion in the Talk page.

My overall impression is that this article is lacking in multiple areas. Images should be included, such as a mugshot perhaps. There are few sections within this article, which leaves one with not much information on Ricardo Caputo at all. A reader is able to gather that he was unfit to stand trial, but no explanation as to why. Facts are spontaneously seen within the article with no real follow up and often seem irrelevant to the section in which they've been placed. For improvement, sections detailing why Caputo was found unfit and pertaining more to his early life (for example, the claim of abuse from the brother) need to be created. New sources are desperately needed as well, as one appears to be more of a web page to persuade readers to buy a book and one is a webpage that seems more like a blog about serial killers. I believe the article is severely underdeveloped.