User:Km1905/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Identity tourism

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 to evaluate the Identity tourism article because I find the topic very interesting and it reminded me very much of the concept of "blackfishing" or other race catfishing. I believe these concepts could expand upon the identity tourism idea and would contribute to the article.

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.)

This article has sources dating back to 1984 and as recent as 2020 meaning that the article already has a basis of legitimacy but it is not entirely all old information. The topic sentence is informative and gives a concise definition of identity tourism. The article does not explicitly list its major sections in the intro. I think the intro could be a little more concise and some of the info could shift from the intro to an information section. The information seems neutral and does not seem biased. A lot of the more recent sources do not contain a link which makes finding the recent information a little harder. Most of the other sources/links seem to be working and reliable as well as fairly academic in nature, but some of the links do not work. The article seems to be rather short but otherwise well written and broken down into appropriate sections. Although "Cyberspace" and "Tourism through the Internet of Things (IoT)" seem like they may be interchangeable or at least able to be combined possibly. It seems concise and so far I have not come across any grammar or spelling issues. There are no images or media for the topic as of now, the sources do also not seem to contain many images. I am just now noticing that this article was nominated for deletion so now I'm not sure how much I really have to work with. Most of the talk page is fairly recent. I don't think this article is very strong but the talk page suggested splitting the definitions of identity tourism between "the act of professing a different ethnic/etc. identity for recreational purposes" which does fit with my black fishing idea and concept to add but the other working definition of identity tourism in this article likely would not fit with that idea. I think the article could hopefully become stronger and improved if blackfishing was mentioned.