User:Pamgorilla/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
2017 in Philippine law and politics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is on my region of interest. Politics and law is especially important in the Deaf community to increase accessibility in society. My preliminary impression was that the page was underwhelming, especially since half of the timeline isn't filled out.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

The introductory sentence reiterates the purpose of the article concisely.

Content

While the content provided is relevant to the topic, there are many months of the 2017 year that have no events or political happenings under them (September, October, November, December). However, the balance of content is completely strewn. There is a heavy focus on the beginning half of the year and no information on the last 4 months of the year.

Tone and Balance

This article is extremely neutral, providing no information about arguments for or against each piece of legislation.

Sources and References

The sources and references work (the ones I checked). Most seem like government-official declarations of new legislation, but some have an error message of "has a generic name." The sources and references also seem up to date, with most being from 2017, but there are some sources that are more recent (2021).

Organization and writing quality

The organization is extremely clear to read, since it's a bullet list of each event that happened in each month. The writing quality is concise so it names the president that enacted the law, the number of the declaration, a short description of the effects of that law, and the date on which that law was enacted.

Images and Media

There are no images or other media in this article.

Talk Page

There has been no discussion on this article's Talk Page.

Overall Impressions

I would say that this is a seriously incomplete and underdeveloped article. The number of political happenings in each month dwindles as the year goes on. A strength of this article is the conciseness and easy readability. The article could be improved by adding images or other media, adding more events that happened in the latter months, and perhaps discuss big points of conflict among controversial legislation passed that year.