User:Pet.no.21/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Andy Schor

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This was one article assigned for class and it is also severely lacking information.

Evaluate the article
The lead in this article is decent. While short, it does not include any information that is not in the article and to an extent provides a summary of what the article will be about in a concise manner. As for the content of the article itself, it is lacking in major ways but provides information that is relevant for the most part. The article includes that Schor is currently the mayor of Lansing, but provides little information about what he has done while in office.

Additionally, I would argue that this argue does not really deal with any of Wikipedia's equity gaps. While Schor is Jewish, an underrepresented and historically marginalized group, the article does not speak on Schor's Jewish identity and background to a large extent or talk about anything that Schor has done for the Jewish community. While this is the case, this argue is unbiased for the most part, likely due to the sheer lack of information in the article.

The article does provide reliable sources for most of the facts stated in the article other than the part where it says that Schor is a founding member of the Ingham County Land Bank, which has no citation. Additionally, some of the sources could be seen as outdate because he is the current mayor of Lansing. The article uses sources from 2010 and 2012, when here is most likely more current information about Mayor Schor. The editor of the article could have used some information from "Ballotpedia" which has information about his mayoral campaign as well as less recent political actions that Schor has been a part of. The article is written decently, with little-to-no grammatical errors; the main issue being the overall length of the article.

As for images, the article only includes one whereas articles about other mayors provide multiple and more up to date pictures. The one picture provided is captioned adequately, as it just has Schor's basic biographical information. The author could have included the year in which the picture was taken.

The talk page for this Wiki link is fairly empty, as the last correspondence occurred before 2018, and it was just someone adding a new source to the article. This article is a part of two different WikiProjects: WikiProject Biography/Politics and Government as well as WikiProject Michigan.

As people who live in Lansing for at least a large chunk of the year, it seemed as if my professor and even some classmates knew more about Mayor Schor than what is included in the article, the main issue being the lack information about what Schor has done while in Mayoral office.

Overall, while this article does not provide enough information about Mayor Schor, it is, at the very least, organized well. This article is generally incomplete and simply requires more and more current information.