User:Krunchynoodles/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Transit-oriented development

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose Transit-oriented development (TOD) because it is an important concept for urbanism and solving the housing crisis. Transit-oriented development is also important for addressing climate change as well as making cities more walkable and livable more generally. My first impression of the article was that it provided a very in depth look at transit-oriented development and covered a large range of the impacts of the development style with a lot more examples than I anticipated

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

The introduction does a good job defining key terms that are important to understanding transit oriented development. The author effectively informs the reader with knowledge they should know for the rest of the article. The lead section is concise and leads nicely into the next section which is the Description section.

Content

The content is all relevant to the topic of transit-oriented development. Some of the information used is a bit outdated with some information I saw being over 10 years old, but other information used in the article is much newer and up to date. I don't believe that the age of the older information is much reason to question its validity as the ideals of transit-oriented development remain the same. There is missing content in my opinion with a few subsections not having sufficient information or conclusions. Specifically, the author brings up a potential transit-oriented neighborhood being developed in the Netherlands, but only provides one sentence bringing it up without adding any more detail

Tone and Balance

The article is clearly biased in favor of transit-oriented development with there being a lot of focus on the advantages of transit-oriented development rather than just stating the facts of what it is. There is a bit of an overrepresentation of positive opinions about the development pattern with little of the article focused on the negatives. I would have preferred to see a more neutral tone as the author does seem to have a positive bias towards TOD and it shines through in their writing.

Sources and References

This article has a ton of sources and references listed. Some of them are only relevant for a sentence or two of the article which is not really necessary to have them in there in my opinion. Most of the major references listed, meaning the sources that the author used for a lot of information are credible. I saw several scholarly, peer-reviewed articles listed in the references. There is a wide variety of age for the sources listed from the 90s to some references being from the past year. The links I clicked on did work.

Organization and writing quality

The language used and the organization was clear and easy to follow. I did not observe any spelling or grammatical errors. The only issue I did have was the "In Cities" section that went longer than it needed to in my opinion with not all examples listed having equal focus put on them. Some had three paragraphs and some had one or two sentences.

Images and Media

The article makes good use of images to illustrate examples of transit-oriented development. Some of them are from the 2000s which may make them outdated and I would have liked to see something like a map to show TOD in an alternative medium rather than just photographs.

Talk page discussion

The talk page has general edits and removal of various information. The article is rated Start-class and of high importance to the subjects Urban studies and planning and architecture. This article was used in a Wiki-education course assignment in 2021.

Overall

Overall I think this article provided good information regarding transit-oriented development. The article's strengths are in its descriptions of the characteristics of TOD. The article could be improved by either consolidating the examples listed in the "In Cities" section or elaborating on the examples that have very little information listed. Currently there are a lot of examples listed with inconsistent levels of information for them. Most parts of the article are fully complete, just the "In Cities" section seems unrefined.