User:Melancosmic/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Manchester State Park (Washington)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section
 * - Lead section is 4 sentences long
 * -Gives relevant and concise information about geography, history, and park amenities
 * Content
 * -Content is relevant and up-to-date, but there is not a lot of information
 * -Article has no sections, just a lead
 * Tone and Balance
 * -Article presents info in a neutral tone
 * -No signs of bias or persuasion
 * Organization and Writing Quality
 * -Article is easy to understand
 * -No spelling or grammatical errors
 * -The lead presents info in sections (geography, history, amenities), but there are no following sections for these topics
 * Sources and References
 * -Two reliable sources are referenced, although one of them comes up blank
 * -More sources are needed, especially for the history part of the article
 * Images and Media
 * -Images of the torpedo warehouse and a map of Washington are helpful and relevant
 * -Well-captioned images
 * -Images and layout are visually pleasing
 * Talk Page Section
 * -One contribution under the talk page from an internet archive bot about sources
 * -Rated as a low-importance stub article
 * -Part of WikiProject United States, WikiProject Protected Areas, and WikiProject Washington
 * Overall Impressions
 * -The article's strengths are its neutrality, captioned images, and organized lead section
 * -The article suffers from having sparse content and sources, but I have some more in mind that the article could benefit from
 * -Adding sections, citing more sources about the park, and inserting more images could help improve the article


 * Sources
 * https://www.historylink.org/File/7524

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Opachychi (Опачичі)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section
 * - Lead section is 1 sentence long
 * -Provides information about the location of Opachychi
 * Content
 * -Content is relevant, but a little out of date regarding the current population
 * -There is one short section about the history of the village
 * Tone and Balance
 * -Article presents info in a neutral tone
 * -No signs of bias or persuasion
 * Organization and Writing Quality
 * -Article is easy to understand, but some phrasing is awkward
 * -No spelling errors
 * Sources and References
 * -One source is referenced, but it does not work
 * -More sources are needed overall
 * Images and Media
 * -There is one image of the location of Opachychi
 * -Images of the village with captions would be helpful
 * Talk Page Section
 * -No activity on this article's talk page
 * -Rated as a low-importance stub article
 * -Part of WikiProject Ukraine and WikiProject Ghost towns
 * Overall Impressions
 * -The article's strengths are its neutrality and history section
 * -The article suffers from basically no sources due to its one reference not working
 * -Adding sections, citing reliable sources (especially about Opachychi's history), and inserting more images with captions could help improve the article


 * Sources

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Emergency rations


 * Article Evaluation
 * Sources
 * Sources

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Grandma pizza


 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section
 * - Lead section is 4 sentences long
 * -Has clear and concise information
 * Content
 * -Content is relevant and up-to-date
 * -The history section (the only section) is focused and easy to understand
 * Tone and Balance
 * -Article presents info in a neutral tone
 * -No signs of bias or persuasion
 * Organization and Writing Quality
 * -Article is easy to understand and flows well
 * -No spelling or grammatical errors
 * Sources and References
 * -Has 4 journalistic sources that are fairly recent (2019)
 * -All the links to sources work
 * -The article could benefit from more academic sources
 * Images and Media
 * -There is one image of a grandma pizza
 * -More example images of grandma pizza or how they are made would be helpful
 * Talk Page Section
 * -No activity on this article's talk page
 * -No ratings
 * -Part of WikiProject Food and drink and WikiProject New York City
 * Overall Impressions
 * -The article's strengths are its neutrality, writing quality, and frequent use of citations
 * -The article suffers from not having a lot of content overall, and it only pulls information from journalistic articles
 * -Adding more sections, citing other reliable sources, and inserting more images with captions could help improve the article


 * Sources

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Corslet


 * Article Evaluation
 * Sources
 * Sources