User:Rachelteixeira/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nicaragua
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. I served part of my mission for the Church in Nicaragua, but I was reassigned to a different location when the political situation became too dangerous for us to stay.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes, it's a summary of the membership of the Church in Nicaragua.
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? The lead does not include anything about the history of the Church in the country, but it mentions all of the other major sections.
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? No.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? Concise. Could use more information.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes.
 * Is the content up-to-date? Yes. The most recent information was cited from a 2019 source.  There is probably more recent information that can be added, especially about the recent changes in the missions and progress being made on the temple.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? There is no content that does not belong, but there is a lot of content missing. The entire history section is essentially blank, and there is no information about the missions.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral? Yes
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? No.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? No.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Yes. The names of the missions aren't cited, but they probably don't have to be.  That would be easy to cite though.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? Yes, but there aren't many of them.  If more were added, they would better reflect the available literature.
 * Are the sources current? Yes, 2018-2019.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Yes.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? Yes, very concise.
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? No.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? Yes.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? No, there are no images.
 * Are images well-captioned? N/A
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? N/A
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? N/A

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There are no conversations going on in the talk page.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is a stub article of low importance within the Latter-day Saint Movement WikiProject.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? N/A

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status? Stub article, lots of room for improvement.
 * What are the article's strengths? It is concise, current, accurate, neutral, and well-cited.
 * How can the article be improved? Much more information needs to be added, especially about the history of the Church in Nicaragua.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? The article is very underdeveloped, but what it has so far is well-done.

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