User:Marinhound/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mexico–United States border crisis

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I want my topic to have something to do with immigration in Texas.

Lead section
The lead is concise. It include some of the overarching themes represented in this legal issue. I don't think it has a great roadmap of what will be discussed in each section

Content
This issue has a great history going way before the Obama administration in 2014 so there is room to expand. Also, this article need to be updated to include information about migrants being bussed to Kamala Harris's house and Martha's Vineyard

Tone and Balance
The tone of this article is neutral and gives a balanced evaluation of the issue.

Sources and References
The sources are up to date. Every fact is cited to a source. It is hard to evaluate if the sources are written by diverse spectrum of authors and historically marginalized individuals without either a) going into a deep dive of every author or b) making problematic assumptions. The links I clicked on worked.

Organization and writing quality
Well organized, but I would say that a section of the long history of the Mexico-United states border is needed after the background section. The timeline is too short.

Images and Media
The title of this article includes crisis but there are no pictures that really demonstrate the crisis. One of them is just a picture of Biden and Harris together with the caption "President Joe Biden has named Vice President Kamala Harris in March 2021 to manage the U.S. response to the migrant crisis along the border" but the picture itself adds nothing to the article.

Talk page discussion
I learned that this article was the subject of a wiki education foundation-supported course assignment, which explains why it is not as fleshed out as I would like. There is some major heat on the article being too biased and "trump-bashing."

Overall impressions
This page focuses on a narrow part of Mexico-United States border crisis when the title ie quite broad. A talk user suggested a rename as well in order to better represent what the information given dives into.