User:Klw217/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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George Floyd protests

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 chose this because my class is about the BLM movement and the murder of George Floyd was among the most influential and searing events of 2020. My preliminary impression of the article is that it is very well-made and complete.

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.)

After reading most of this article, I feel like the vast majority of information is very relevant to the topic. The information appears to be mostly up-to-date, as it has been continuously expanded over the past year and a half. My preliminary impression of the article is that it is very well-made and complete. The article could better include other events that led to the anger that erupted over George Floyd, such as the murders of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. These would give better background information into what else caused the protests.

I think the article does a good job remaining neutral. It includes statements from politicians and people on both sides of the spectrum, those for and against the protests. The article also does a good job presenting factual evidence and addressing the various sources of misinformation about the protests that were floated around last year.

The links and citations all appear to work. However, I wish the editors had included a link to Derek Chauvin's murder trial (State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin) in the first paragraph of the article. There are conversations in the talk page that concern the need for citations when talking about the number of people who died as a result of the protests.