User:Rebeccamweintraub/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gore Mountain (ski resort)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because this is the mountain that I grew up skiing at. I have a lot of prior knowledge on the subject but also wanted to learn more about the history! I thought it would be a fun page to evaluate and see what can be changed or added, and what looks good.

Evaluate the article
- Lead: The lead section does well introducing the topic and giving a brief background. However, the information states vague conclusions without citing that information or specifying their topic.

- Content: The content is relevant, but needs to be brought up to date. Most of the information included and cited goes back to 2011/2012, a decade ago. The page is missing information on the mountain like the type of audience it attracts, yearly revenue, and background besides just the history. It does not address an equity gap in wikipedia.

- Tone and Balance: The topic is not a controversial one so it is relatively balanced, however, the vague statements that are not cited on things like popularity lead to a more biased tone.

- Sources and References: The article is definitely lacking some citations that would be useful to clarify and cement information. For example, in the first paragraph the page talks about it being a popular destination but does not cite how they know that to be the case. Adding a reference about the annual attendance or how it has grown would improve the information.

- Organization and writing quality: The writing quality is decent, and the organization helps to separate the history from current mountain information, but more sections could be added to enhance the organization.

- Images/ Media: More pictures of the mountain and its amenities would improve the page.

- Talk Page Discussion: The talk page is very limited, making it clear that this article has not been intensively edited or worked on by multiple people.

- Overall impression: My overall impression of this page is that it has decent bones, but needs a lot of work to expand the content and reduce the bias through eliminating vague statements and increasing citations.