User:LPaul27/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Long-distance running

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it was listed under the WikiProject section, and then I clicked on sports, and chose running as a category because I enjoy running and I have some decent knowledge on it, so maybe I could make some edits to it. This article matters because if someone wants to get into long distance running, they want to know facts about it. My first impression of the article was that it had lots of good information and it included the history of running which I never really read about.

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.)

Lead Section

The leading sentence of the article is good and gets to the point, but overall, the leading section seems to give a lot of information that should rather be within the actual content aspect of the article, it seems to be a bit too lengthy.

Content

Within the content section, they listed records held by men and women for various long-distance races, and some of the records are not up to date, which gives false and misleading information.

Tone and Balance

The article is not leaning one way or another, it is kind of difficult to do that with a subject like running honestly. They just laid down basic facts and knowledge one needs that relates to long-distance running.

Sources and References

The links all work and they are linked to different Wikipedia articles, therefore I think they are reliable within the Wiki World.

Organization and Writing Quality

It looks like most Wikipedia articles, but I still find it somewhat hard to read. There is a lot of information that doesn't necessarily seem very organized which will make it hard for a reader who has come across the page to learn more information.

Images and Media

Yes the images all fit nicely with the article. The photos are all cited within the article which follows the Wikipedia standard for copyright.

Talk Page Discussion

There were many good points brought up that I did not even think about like how some events are listed under long-distance, but in other articles they are listed in mid-distance subject, like the 3000-meter steeplechase.

Overall Impressions

Overall, the Talk Page did not seem to tear it apart too much, so some of the information is subjective to the reader and whether or not they think it should be included, like some of the athletes listed. The article lists some good things about the basics of long-distance running, which is necessary for someone coming across a page called "long-distance running". I honestly thought the article was pretty well-developed, and the Talk Page seems to agree on most terms.