User:Lsmith44/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Central Park birdwatching incident

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it was a recent event that received a lot of news coverage. This event is important because it shows that blatant racism is still alive today. After briefly reading through the article once, I found it to be very informative and it did not seem biased.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: This lead section is very concise with all the necessary details. It shows us why the article is important as well.

Content: The content of the article is very good, I like how it has excerpts of the actual conversation that took place in the 'Incident' section. The content is also up to date, it shows that the last edit occurred 2/18/21, so the author obviously spends time checking his article every now and again.

Tone and balance: The tone of the article is very neutral. With topics like this that involve events of racism, it is difficult to stay neutral and just give the facts. However, the author did it here well. I did not feel as though the author was trying to make one side or the other look better, which happens sometimes with bias. The tone of this article was simply factual.

Sources and references: The author uses many different sources for this article--34 total. I was impressed that there were that many sources for a singular event that happened just a year ago. Several of these sources come from The New York Times, which is a pretty reliable source in itself.

Organization and writing quality: I liked the way this article was arranged. The 'Legal Proceedings' section at the end of the article was conveniently placed, so if anybody was just curious about how the event turned out, they could go directly there.

Image and media: The article contained one picture--where the event took place. I found this to be useful so that we could picture how the event played out. I wish we could have had pictures of both people involved in this event, but that may be a revision that the author is planning in the future.

Talk page discussion: I noticed that the authors discussed removing a sentence from the article because it seemed too biased. I like how they did their best to present this article in a very neutral view.