User:Saguaro123/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Free Breakfast for Children)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I have decided to evaluate this certain article because I believe that it's important to acknowledge where the free breakfast for students come from. It matter because not only as we learning more about a program that still plays a big role in school districts today, but also goes into what progress had to be made. My first impressions of the article was that is a very good article with a start, middle and end. It seems it just needs some adjustments and slight updates.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead section: The introduction to the free breakfast program could be shorten into, "The Free Breakfast for School Children Program was a community service program run by the Black Panther Party as an early manifestation of the social mission envisioned by founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale" I would then take out the part about school community they also helped with. Even thought that is great information it does not go with the introduction.

Content: I enjoyed leaning about the history however at times it felt incomplete, in the "Demise" section it just says "The US government would soon implement a national breakfast program of its own built on the framework of the Panthers' innovation." I feel that there is certainly more than just the U.S government taking a breakfast program and if they did how did they keep it going?

Tone and Balance: The article was able to portray the importance of the program, however there were many times where it seem to not mov e beyond the BPP involvement and what it looks like today.

Sources and references: The sources did seem credible, but most did not really focus but rather have snippets of the free program.

Images and Media: There were no images added to the article which surprised me as there are many images of the original poster promoting the free breakfast as well as the children who got the free breakfast.

Talk page discussion: As I mentioned before, many on the talk page raised serious questions as to why the page mainly centered on the BPP involvement. Which I think is great however it is still a program that is up and running today. Many did comment how bias it seemed and not neutral.

Overall Impressions:

I like the article but for it to be taken more seriously it needs to change and be kept up to date. I would want to remove demise, because although it does seem the original Free breakfast did end the one presented by the U.S. government still continues.

Feedback on Article Evaluation
Nice work! Please note that another user from our class (Jordanshie) also evaluated the same article, but only one of you can adopt the article to work on for your class project. You can see what they wrote, and my feedback in their sandbox. Also, this article appear to be specifically on the BPP's free breakfast program, so I wouldn't edit it away from that. You could try changing the article title to make the BPP's role clearer in it. There are other Wikipedia pages that focus on the government school meal programs that are still in current use (these could be usefully linked to the BPP article and vice versa). See, for example:

School meal programs in the United States

National School Lunch Act

School meal

School Breakfast Program (Saguaro23 (talk) 18:07, 6 September 2021 (UTC))