User:Menace55/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
American Beach, Florida

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The reason why I chose this article to be the first one I evaluate is because of my interest in the History of America and what events lead to bigger changes over the course of time that has made our country into what it is today. This article matters because its based in the time of Jim Crow and segregation laws were in full effect in America and we all know that wasn't Americas best point in time. My preliminary impression of this article was that it was very short and not much detail that surrounded the general topic.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

- The leading sentence to this article is very straight to the point on the location and whereabouts of American Beach and its historic marking that its made in Florida.

- The lead starts off with a strong overview of what is to come in the following section(History), giving a brief overview on the topic that will later be discussed in the following section.

- The lead does not include any information that is not discussed in this article.

- This is a very concise short summary of the whereabouts and history of this location.

Content

- With as little information that this topic has the content is on course with the topic.

- This content was last updated on November 21, 2021 so it is up to date.

- The history of this content is up to date but maybe some details may be missing and could be found with further outsourcing information.

- Every aspect of this article belongs here

- I feel as if this article can fall under Wikipedia's equity gaps due to the fact that this historic beach and founding by a black man in the times of Jim Crow is not looked into enough.

Tone and Balance

- This article is neutral due to the fact that it does not have any biased point of view on either party.

- I would say that the accomplishment of a the first black owned beach is underrepresented due to the fact of the lack of detail.

- The minority claims in this article are accurate due to the fact that the timeline of this article was based in the era of Jim Crow.

- This article does not try and favor anyone in the content just giving true facts of what was going on during that time.

Sources and References

- There is one reference that is backed up by a missing article so not every fact is backed up perfectly.

- There is only one source that is not backed by the article, every other source does reflect the topic.

- The sources range from March 2009 to August 2017, they are not current but not far off.

- There is not really much diversity in the source most of them are from the National Park Service.

- The few links I clicked on worked perfectly.

- There is a news coverage site that has information on this topic but just as little as the article itself offers.

Organization and Writing Quality

- This article is short and easy read as it just gives a brief history on American Beach.

- Going over the article I personally could not make out any grammatical mistakes or spelling errors.

- For how short this article is, it is organized but there is only two sections to it.

Images and Media

- The first two images the article includes two images the first being a historic wooden house that has been standing for decades and a map picture of Florida that shows the exact location of American Beach. Then they go into images of the surrounding area.

- The captions of the images are accurate.

- The images and maps that are displayed are from other people work.

- For how small the article is you can see the images but some go further along then the article.

Talk Page Discussion

- There is only one person on the talk page that is trying to have the topic of the article changed.

- This article rating is a C.

Overall Impressions

- The overall status of this article is good, accurate sources and images referring to the topic.

- The articles strengths are the way its put together in a short concise article that gets straight

- There could be more detail maybe even another section on Abraham Lincoln Lewis

- I would say that this article is underdeveloped due to the fact that its so short and many things could branch off from this topic creating new sections.