User:Jojijoj/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Fake news: (Fake news)
 * I chose this article to evaluate becasue I'm personally very interested in this topic, including how does fake news evolved in our soceity, the different channels that fake news spread, the major fake news cases, etc. However, when reading this article, I think that the way all the information organized or categorized can be improved, the effects and influences of fake news on the society, social groups, and individuals.


 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation
The Lead has a concise and clear introductory sentence and all the information included is present in the article. But the Lead does not include a brief description of the article's major sections and it is overly detailed.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Content evaluation
The content of the article is definitly relevant to the topic and up-to-date since it was lase edited on 7 February 2020. Like I mentioned at the begining, there are content about the influences fake news has on our soceity, specific social groups, certain individuals, etc. How fake news changed or affected the way people perceived public inforrmation? How does films or tv shows portrayed fake news?

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
The overal tone of this article is pretty neutral, but there is a tag in the "Identifying" section saying that its "tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia."

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
The article did a great job on backing up all facts with reliable, thorough, and current secondary sources. All the links I checked are working.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
Some sections for the article is a littlt bit too long to read (e.g. the Lead, 21st century). Also, the "By Country" section is too long and inconenvient to navigate, and I think that all the information of this section can be organized and separated into some different, more specific and clear sections, instead of countries.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
The images in this article definitely enhance the readers' understanding of the topic and are laid out in a visually appealing way. But toward the end of the article, there is a picture of Donald Trump which I think is not captioned professionally.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
Since this page was nominated for deletion, there were discussion arguing that this article should be kept. There are also discussions of the recent fake news, defintions, and history of fake news. This article is of interest to the WikiPoject Politics and WikiProject Journalism.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
This article is in the high performanced C-class, which is an intermediate article with room for improvement. The strengths are that it already has a lot of comprehensive information and since this toic is becoming more and moire importand in our media industry, and more people are aware of it, I believe that there are a lot of new facts, stats or even definitions that I can find and add to it.

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 * Link to feedback: Talk:Fake news