User:Lydiaham/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Religion in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am interested in the demographics of the US, and because I wanted to try an article outside of the psychology field. This matters because it helps us understand how the population may be affected by popular religious beliefs by region. My initial impression was that this article was well formatted with a lot of information.

Evaluate the article
The lead section was a bit long, but overall, provided a clear picture of both the background of U.S. religious traditions as well as the changing demographics of religious practice over time. The divisions of major sections is not super obvious, but the lead hints that it will be based on different types of religion and perhaps in chronological order. It's not quite as concise, but there is a lot of info to cover.

The content is balanced and covers a wide range of topics. It was updated recently and seems to have relevant and recent information. I didn't notice any key information missing.

It seemed pretty balanced to me, without a major bias towards any one viewpoint.

There were a lot of cross-referenced articles. The authors included a variety of references for each subtopic, which helps credibility. Some census data, surveys from reputable organizations like the Pew Research Center, published encyclopedias, and traditional news sources like CNN, were some of the different sources used. The links seemed good.

Organizationally, this article was good, but not perfect. The intro was a bit long, but most sections were concise without being too sparse. Spelling and grammar were both done well. The article was split into clear sections which were logical.

Images were used periodically to depict different religious places of worship and other paraphernalia. They were captioned well, giving detail and citations.

Conversations in the Talk page were focused on syntax and ensuring an unbiased viewpoint. The article was rated B-class, as were most subtopics.

The best thing to develop this article is to update with more recent data, some of the data was from as early as 2004, so potentially finding new sources for similar studies that are more recent and reflect changes in the population.