User:Ncaggiano8/Evaluate an Article

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Boston Massacre

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(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

This article goes into the details of the boston masacre, and where and what exactly the purpose of this was.

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.)

Lead Section: The article starts with a leading sentence that tells us where the Boston massacre takes place and begins the article that is going to take that topic and go into depth with it. When it comes to this article, the opening of it really makes it clear that the whole article is going to be about the massacre that occurs. The author put in a table of contents which can lead us to different sections of the article which makes it easy to navigate through and find the information that is important. I would say that the article is very accurate when it comes to the details.

Content: The content is very up to date for this topic and all of the information in this article is 100% relevant to the topic of the Boston Massacre. This topic is definitely not talked about much and could often be forgotten, but this article goes into depth of the situations and everything involved with the topic.

Tone and Balance: Reading through this article, it seems to be a very neutral topic, although it seems that this event in history could have possibly been avoided, The author gives us neutral thoughts and facts when it comes to the outcome of the event and all of the situations that occurred leading up to this event in history.

Sources and Referances: When it comes to the sources, the links do work and the information from these websites seem legit and accurate when it comes to the topic of choice.

Organization and Writing quality: The article was overall a very easy read when it comes to the idea of the Boston massacre, after reading this article, i feel that i have a better understanding of the events that occurred on this day. There is no grammatical errors that I am aware of.

Images and Media: This article indeed has a bunch of different images that depict what occurred on that day and what the people involved went through.

Talk page discussion: This article is rated well, but does not seem to have wiki project backed up with it.

Overall impressions: I happen to enjoy reading this article and I found the topic to very interesting, the topic could give me the ability to make a good wiki page for the project, as the event is very well known and their is a lot of information to learn about the causes and effects of this historical event. I would recommend anyone who likes history to take a look at the article and give it a good read in order to obtain more knowledge on this topic.