User:Liamdlny/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Eagle River, Anchorage

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This is a local suburb of Anchorage. I found it in the C-class articles section, but I find it interesting how people talk about Eagle River. It is spoken about like it's a city in itself, but it is just a suburb in the Municipality of Anchorage.

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-


 * Introductory sentence gives a good idea of what Eagle River is. Basically says that it is a town in the Anchorage Municipality.
 * Gives brief introduction to the rest of the headed topics in the article. Misses a few of the topics like climate, sports, and education.
 * The lead does not present information not present in the rest of the article.
 * The lead is consistent and hold an appropriate amount of information.

Content-


 * The content of the article is relevant to the topic. Provides good information about the way the suburb functions and how it fits into the area it is in.
 * I believe it is up to date enough. The last retrieved article was found in 2020 and there was an update in education to show that some of the schools damaged in a 2018 earthquake are now open for the 2021-22 school year.
 * All of the content seems to be in place. As for missing information, I think it could have a bit more information about some of the significant historical events in Eagle River. It gives a brief history summary that I think could be elongated.
 * The article says nothing about the Alaskan Native people who settled here before.

Tone-


 * Seems neutral enough. Does not read like someone biased speaking about Eagle River.
 * Speaks a lot about the annexation of Eagle River to Anchorage Municipality in the 70's. A lot of information on this small event seems to be a bit like someone who supports the secession of Eagle River.
 * Overrepresentation is the annexation of Eagle River. more above.
 * The tone of the article kind of feels like someone from Eagle River is giving a brief summary of what it is like and where it is.

Sources and References-


 * Most of the sources are newspaper articles and a lot of them are about the secession of Eagle River and the earthquake in 2018. I saw a few links reliable sources like the census and historical climate data.
 * I think that the demographics section should be updated. The census data is drawn from the 2000 census when there is new information available in 2020.
 * The most recent source was sourced before 2020. This is a few years old and could use a refresh.
 * There are no peer-reviewed sources or known historical authors in the sources section. No real representation of underrepresented people in this section either.
 * There are some sturdier articles from government sources about the earthquake in 2018 and a few peer reviewed articles about the history of Eagle River available.
 * The links work. They just take me to dated news articles.

Organization


 * The article is a little bit all over the place. There are some bits and pieces of information that are just kind of peppered in without any clarification.
 * I did not notice any grammatical errors.
 * The sections make sense and all the information makes sense in the sections they are grouped into.

Images


 * The images are well placed. Most of them are just arial photos of the area and mountain ranges that surround it.
 * Seems like the images were just kind of placed off to the side.

Talk Page and Discussion


 * There is a small discussion in which a few people say what they have added and one person just says they have nothing to add and to ask them any questions they may have. There is a wikipedia article reviewer who comments on the article being "Iffy"
 * It is rated a C article and it is a part of the WikiProject Alaska scope.
 * This topic was not really discussed in class.

Overall Impressions


 * I think what is there is good information. I think that the history section could be significantly improved and could include more information on Alaskan Native history and maybe the development of the settlement. Maybe a land acknowledgement at least. I think this article could use some more development. It is relatively complete but could use some more development in a few topics. Maybe the sources could use some updating. The demographics section should be updated to reflect the 2020 census.