User:Milkteanwhitepearls/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Social media as a news source (Social media as a news source)
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate: This is an interesting article and extremely familiar to the issue of contemporary society where people use social media to not only interact with each other but also read news and collect information.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? yes
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? yes
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? yes
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? it is concise

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? yes
 * Is the content up-to-date? yes
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? no

Content evaluation
The content is pretty good and detailed, however, the title for each paragraph should be strengthened

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?yes
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? no
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? no
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? no

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? yes
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? yes
 * Are the sources current? yes
 * Check a few links. Do they work? yes

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? yes
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? yes
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? yes

Organization evaluation 7.5/10
Some paragraphs are too long, it should be divided clearly

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? no
 * Are images well-captioned? no
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? no
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? no

Images and media evaluation
there is no image in this article

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? the contributor wanted to add some more headings to the article to make it clearer
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? it was a subject of Wiki Education
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? there isn't much discussion in the talk page, there is only one

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status? it still has a few people keep editing until today
 * What are the article's strengths? strengthen the viewpoint by giving a lot of detailed statistic and number
 * How can the article be improved? it should have an image and some paragraph should be re-organized
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? it is well-developed

Optional activity

 * Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback

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