User:PS159C75/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Lost Boy Larry

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
While looking through C-Class articles, the selection of articles on amateur radio seemed to be a reasonable enough size to have some variety, but small enough to not be overwhelming. As someone who is studying communications, I also thought that I would find one of the articles engaging. Of the 40 pages listed through the link, Lost Boy Larry had an eye catching title. It also stuck out from the other content, on the page with the action expressed through the alliteration.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is very good, giving a concise amount of information. The rest of the lead paragraph is not as concise, with editing capable of cleaning up some of the excess information present about Larry. Defining who he was was done in the first sentence, so some of the content is better suited for later on in the article (such as the bit about the car being overturned). This is especially glaring because it is not included later on in the article when expanding upon the initial circumstances of Larry's existence.

The content is relevant to the article, although it seems much of the information comes from one secondary source, in this case being the newspaper The Daily Colonist. Although the source is helpful in factual information, it puts the claim of the event being "internationally covered" into question, with this newspaper being the one local to the affected area and the other sources being American news carriers which are republishing the work of other reporters. The style of writing also using many parentheses for bits of information which are better suited as part of the article or not to be included for sake of a concise article. The links do work and the content of the article is strong in contextualizing the importance of this event, such as the connection to hobbyist radio users and the influence this event had on search and rescue protocols in the U.S. This article could benefit from thorough editing not to largely alter the content present, but to better align with Wikipedia's format standards.