User:Mcollins4/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
COVID-19 anti-lockdown protests in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
My current topic for this assignment is the effect of long COVID on a person's wellbeing. I chose this article because it shares the common idea of COVID-19. It can provide me with more of a background on how people responded to the pandemic and the measures that were being taken.

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.)

Evaluating content:

It seems that everything included in the article is relevant to its topic. However, the organization of the article is very busy. Including numerous states and the protests that occurred in them, it causes there to be a lot of information to digest. Instead of listing each state, the article could be separated into regions and the most well-known protests could be included. All of the information seems to be up to date. Also, there is no bias present in the information. It simply is just stating facts. When it comes to the dates of events, years should be added since some time has passed since the United States was in a state of lockdown.

Evaluating tone:

The information is mostly neutral, however, there seems to be an implied connection between the anti-lockdown protests and the republican party.

Evaluating sources:

The sources I checked do in fact work as well as support the claims in the article. I did spot a few sources that came from news sites which is not the best place to find a neutral, reliable source. Also, it seems like once again some of the sources imply a connection between Donald Trump and his supporters and the protests. There are a wide variety of sources, however, a lot of the sources do come from news websites taking away from the credibility of the article.

Checking the talk page:

The only conversation truly occurring discusses the length of the article. It consists of viewpoints stating the article is too long and includes irrelevant rallies along with others stating each rally listed is cited and backed up. It is a part of three WikiProjects including WikiProject COVID-19 (rated C-class, mid-importance), WikiProject Disaster management (rated C-class, low-importance), and WikiProject United States (rated C-class, low-importance).