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Article evaluation
Article: New Brunswick, NJ

Everything in the article is relevant to the topic. It helps that the topic is the city itself, which is fairly broad and allows for a wide array of facts that can be included. The flow of information in the section titled "During the Colonial and Early American Periods" was a bit distracting - for an article about the city of New Brunswick, that section focused heavily on Queens College/Rutgers and less on what was happening in the city itself during that time period.

The article does a good job of keeping a neutral viewpoint. Many of the facts involve names/dates/numbers and those are difficult to spin. One bit about Johnson & Johnson building their world headquarters by bulldozing a historic section of town does show some bias against J&J but not much.

While I hesitate to say that the Hungarian viewpoint is over-represented, there is quite a list of Hungarian-related institutions where the list of similar institutions for African-American and the Latinx population seems to be missing or under-voiced. More care could be taken to balance that out.

Citations are robust, correct, and adequately support the facts.

The information appears up-to-date, for the most part. Some of the photos could be updated, and notes about the physical building that once housed the Crossroads Theater (currently under construction as the Rutgers Performing Arts Center) could be noted, especially given that some attention is paid to Crossroads and the awards that theater has won. Currently, a visitor to New Brunswick who is hoping to visit Crossroads is going to be confused and disappointed.

Re: Talk page There hasn't been much discussion lately on the Talk page. The last major action taken was in late 2017, when the New Jersey Music Scene page was merged into New Brunswick. Beyond that, most of the discussion is nearly ten years old or older. The building project currently going on in the former Ferren Mall space deserves a mention.

Re: discussion When we talk about the city of New Brunswick in class, it's easy to inject our own feelings and opinions into the discussion. Here, the emphasis is on facts and only facts, and that can come across as quite dry and maybe a bit boring. Sometimes there are little tidbits inserted in the article that make you go "ah ha, I didn't know that" (such as the Charles In Charge references, which I personally find hilarious). But by and large, this is a straightforward listing of the things and places and [some of the] people important to New Brunswick.

My team has been assigned article: History of Rutgers University

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