User:Plc05/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
East Oakland, Oakland, California

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because my focus is on Oakland. I could have chosen the other, higher class article, but chose this one because Im closely connected to East Oakland. I also noticed that there was much to be done on the improvement of this article so I had to check it out and see if there was anyway I could contribute.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is very short, even wikipedia points it out. All main points are not sufficiently summarized in the section; it has no mention of topics brought out in the article except the geographical location and some population statistics. overall very vague, no idea what you'll be reading about from just the lead section.

The content is relevant to Oakland but it just feels like tis missing something. It feels almost scattered, no clear idea of what's going on just some information being included. Some of the information is a bit outdated, (2015) and there's a lot of missing citations where it's important, like in statistics about the population. There's a lot of information on groups of people that have been underrepresented but when they mention the neighborhoods, only two are really talked about while the others don't have anything written on them.

At first glance the article seems to be written neutrally but as I read more through it, it feels a bit less neutral, but maybe that's just me. And as I said before, the sources are some what outdated and there aren't enough of them throughout where it counts. Some of the links don't even work, or they do work and there's no information on the subject at all.

Again, as I've said before, the article is a bit scattered, the information goes from one thing to another within the same paragraph.

There are very few pictures but they are a nice addition and I think they follow Wikipedia's rules. they are just kind of there though, some more pictures would be nice under the "Neighborhoods" section.

In the talk page, contributors of the article talk about neutral language and verifying where a writer got certain information from, as well as voting on what image of the Oakland skyline to use. Simple and constructive conversation like that is what I saw in the Talk Page.

Overall, the article is a Start-class article of low importance. It has decent bones but much could be improved, like the citations for one, and lacking information in some sections.