User:Monicavaldez/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Baltimore Gazette

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

This article is in the category of my major, Communication and Media Studies and it's about the city I was born in. This article matters because it talks about a piece of history about Baltimore that people may seem to overlook. When looking at this article, the length seemed a bit short as if there's not much more information to add to the topic.

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.)

There is a strong lead section going into what the Gazette was and the years the Gazette was operating. It does not cover the article’s most major sections because there weren't any major sections listed in the article. Overall the lead is very concise. The content of this article is up-to-date with the most recent edit occurring in April of this year. As for pertaining to the topic, the content overall greatly talks about the topic while also giving brief summaries about subcategories relating to the Gazette. Since this topic is not talked about much, the article itself represents an underrepresented topic. The sources within this article also represent underrepresented topics. There does not seem to be any language of biasness, this article overall is neutral. This article has a sufficient amount of sources with the information presented. The links to these sources are all functional and are hyperlinked at the correct points in the paragraphs. There were no images that could’ve encapsulated what the article was about. There should’ve been images in this article because it would have gave the reader a better understanding. There were conversations about how there are two Baltimore Gazettes and  some more information on how the article should be called “Federal Gazette and Baltimore Daily Advertiser” The article as a whole has the potential to have more information, as it stands the article is lacking in some areas. There could’ve been more images and more info on this newspaper but there isn’t.