User:Kadenismail/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Article about Michelle Wu.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it was one of the articles proposed by the PLS 302 course. Along with this, Michelle Wu's significance as the first Asian American to be elected as a member of the Boston City Council in 2013 was very fascinating. Also, the organization of her influence in a number of facets of the city council was very appealing to the eye.

Evaluate the article
The lead sentence of the article does a great job of introducing the topic of the article by giving a brief overview of Michelle Wu's importance. By giving an insightful yet concise overview of the different aspects of Boston that she has influenced as a city council member that are highlighted as individual sections in the article. All of the major topics covered in the article are mentioned in the lead, and it is slightly long, but full of information nonetheless. It is concise enough that it isn't an eyesore, however it is decently packed with information that is later elaborated upon.

The content of this article is very impressive. All of the information covered and the points made primarily attribute to Wu and her numerous accomplishments as a city council member and president. After reviewing the content and checking the sources, a majority of it is from under a year ago and up to date. All of the content and information included is relevant and fits well within the article. Along with this, it is not heavily based on populations or topics that are underrepresented, however it does address Wu's heritage as an Asian American as it makes her resume even more impressive as the first Asian American board member of the Boston city council.

This article is not overly neutral, but for a justifiable reason. As Wu identifies with the democrat party, and her views on topics such as COVID, the police or law enforcement, marijuana, and city development and zoning were detailed as neutrally and unbiased as possible. The authors of the article did well in not under representing or over representing any topics and minority viewpoints were, in fact, described respectively. The article is formatted as informative and not argumentative, and does not contain a significant amount of rhetoric with the obvious intent of persuasion to a viewpoint.

Regarding the sources and references, the article has a wide variety of facts that are directly cited to the long list of reliable sources in the references section. The sources are highly reliable and the list of sources is long and thorough, and mostly from the year 2021, implying that they are current and informed. The long list of sources includes numerous magazines, news articles, government sites, and foundations not only from Boston but from all over the country. Looking around, I was unable to find any sources that would better fit for certain topics and viewpoints discussed in the informative article. Clicking through, the links are functioning and valid.

The article is fairly well written with very simple diction, although there are some outlying sections that could be divided into separate paragraphs to spread the formatting. I did not catch any grammatical or spelling errors, and the articles section divisions are very helpful and well organized, but there are some areas in which information is repeated unnecessarily. Besides this, it is very well written and formatted.

The images in the article are not overly helpful, but are appealing to the eye as far as formatting goes. They are decently captioned, but a couple of them could use a little more elaboration, such as one captioned, "Wu in 2018".

In the talk page, a conversation mentioning Wu's marriage of a white man, but besides this, it is fairly empty. The article is rated C-class by all concerned WikiProjects, such as Biography/Politics and Government, and Women's History. it is a more formal discussion on Wikipedia than the casual suggestions and improvements that we would suggest in class.

I believe that this article was very insightful as to giving deep explanations of Wu's upbringing, education, career, and political views and motives. It cited information very well and used numerous resources to get multiple viewpoints, and was highly descriptive of Wu's political views and achievements in office. Improvements I would suggest to this article include less repetitiveness and slightly better formatting or divisions of paragraphs. I believe that the article is very complete with images and insightful takes on her views, achievements, and life.