User:Longpeak14/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Snowboarding

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 it because I really like to snowboard and I thought it would be interesting to know more about it. I think it matters because it's an amazing sport and people should be encouraged to do it by learning the correct facts and how to do it. My impression of the article was there was so much information which made it really hard to skim though and it was really boring.

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.)

In this article there was a lot of information which made it hard to skim though. A lot of the people who were mentioned were also just in a weird order because Chloe Kim and Shaun White are some of the biggest names in snowboarding but they were mentioned more toward the bottom which I found out of place. It also went into such detail where it became a drag to read and if there was more focus it would probably been easier. For example when talking about injuries it dove so much into men vs women who gets more injuries, compared to skiers and it gave statistics and took up a ton of space on the page. Photos also were overdone at the top of the page but towards the bottom less and less photos occurred making it hard to keep up and skim through. The sources are all also out of date and have not been updated since 2019 which is shown throughout the article with them not bringing up new brands, boarders and slang. The article is pretty neutral but it brings up a lot of how much skiers dislike snowboarders which is controversial and not really relevant to the history. The article is not highly rated due to people talking about spelling errors, accuracy and someone even cited it for removal cause of lack of upkeep.