User:Przemysl15/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Space policy of the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I want to look into space public policy for the assignment, and this article seems to be a bridge into many of the articles I could end up working on. Evaluating what of this article needs help can help point me in the right direction.

Evaluate the article
Needs a longer lede, it is only 3 sentences long and for a page this long that could easily be expanded. The policy process section looks incredibly well done and the sourcing for it appears to be very strong. This section, and most of the article, needs to be updated as it seems to have had most of its work done around 2017 and only gets middling attention now days. I can see someone was working on it for a project in 2011 much as I am doing. The budget of NASA section is split and the International Law section is small, so perhaps I could work on that. The International law section also relies on few but strong sources, so perhaps that could be expanded on or even turned into its own article. The history is the most robust and frankly could simply be moved into a whole new article. I am not willing to enter into a move discussion about it because I don't feel comfortable doing so at the moment. This section still does have problems, especially with the aforementioned lack of updates for the Trump and Biden administrations, although there are some.

The article in general seems to be well written, as it has proper grammar, spelling, etc., so I did not see a need for copy edits, even for flow. The sourcing appears to be excellent, and the history section especially looks robust in terms of Wikipedia standards. I would go as far to say that the article should be nominated for Good Article standing or anything, but I would absolutely consider it helpful, readable, and in general a solid Wikipedia article.

As mentioned previously, the main things it needs are expanded sections for NASA's budget, although probably it just needs a bit more from the article than a short lede. It could use an expansion of the International Law section, or the creation of an entire article, and the section on History might be able to be split. I am not sure the page length limits for new articles but that could be one. For History, the Presidents before Obama could have their own article, or it could be done the way the War in Syria article is done where it goes by time periods for articles. The History section, especially the Trump/Obama bits, have great images, but the rest of the article could use a facelift on the articles part. Thus, the article generally looks good the way it does now, and the current format should be expanded upon to include other notable things.