User:Lexie1473/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Elaine massacre
 * I have chosen this article to evaluate because it talks about an brutal time that just so happens to be in the state that I live in.

Lead

 * Guiding questions

The lead does include a introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article topic.The lead does not necessarily have a brief description of the articles major sections, but it does say it on the side of the page. The lead of the paragraph does not include information that is present in the article. I think that the lead could defiantly use more details.

Content

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The articles content is relevant to the topic. It is describing exactly what the article is about which is the Elaine massacre. The content is pretty much up to date considering the events happened so long ago. I think they should add more talking and explaining about the memorial. It seems to be a little less on facts there.

Tone and Balance

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I believe that the article is neutral, because it is just stating facts. I think this author did a great job at not being biased because again it is just stating facts. There were no viewpoints that were over represented or underrepresented. The article does not attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another, Unless its to show that times were way different back than and racism is wrong.

Sources and References

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 * Most of the facts in the article are backed up by a reliable secondary source of information. The sources are thorough and they do reflect the available literature on the topic There are sources that are current and there are sources that may be out of date, but it has information backed up all the way to 2019. I checked a few links and they do work

Organization

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 * I believe that this article is well written. It is very concise, clear, and easy to read. This article does not have any grammatical or spelling errors. The article probley could have been broken down better with more information added to the end but, it is still pretty good.

Images and Media

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The article does not include very many images that enhance the understanding of the topic. In fact there is only one picture through out the entire article. If there were more pictures I would say that they are well captioned, but there is just not. The picture that has up does in fact adhere to Wikipedia's copy right regulations. There is only one picture so it is not really laid out in a visually appealing way.

Checking the talk page

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There are not really any conversations that are going behind the scenes about how to represent this topic. I feel like this topic would in fact be hard to represent because the information is from so long ago. The article is rated a class B and I do not believe that it is apart of any Wiki-projects. Wikipedia discusses the topic in more of straight to the point type article and in class there is more biased behavior tendency's on writing essays.

Overall impressions

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The articules overall status is considered a class B article which means it can use some work. The articles strengths are that it does not seem very biased and it has alot of information in the beginning. The articule can be improved by adding more information towards the bottom of the essay and adding more pictures to make it visually more intresting. I believe that the articule is a very well developed essay it could just use the minor things to make it amazing.


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

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