User:Shania tetteh/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: Beyoncé 2018 Coachella performance
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. It was a pivotal moment in pop culture, especially for Black people and people that attend HBCUs.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation
The lead offers a fairly good amount of information. It does indeed provide details about the articles major sections, including the dates, a brief summary of the events that took place during the performance, and information about who performed, as well as the aftermath of the performance. The article does list some information that is not present throughout the rest of the article, but not enough to confuse the reader.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Content evaluation
The article's content does match the topic. As of this year, 2019, the content is up to date. I am not very well versed on all the schematics of the performance, but from my point of view the article contains all of the content that it should have- nothing more, nothing less.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
The article, upon first read, does appear to seem neutral. However, I did note that there were no negative or actually neutral viewpoints written about the performance as well, which does kind of challenge the article's true neutrality. Despite this, the article does not in any way attempt to say the reader in a certain position.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
The article does include facts, all backed up with sources of information. Most of the references are either news reports or journalistic reviews. They do reflect the content of the article. The sources are pretty current, dating up to 4 months ago. I clicked on 5 source links and they all worked.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
The article is well organized and easy to read, broken down into sections that range from the background of the performance the the musical samples that were used. The article, in my opinion, does have some commas that are missing here and there but they are admittedly subjective,

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
I was surprised to see that there were no images on this page, as it is about a recorded performance. There was a lot of symbolism incorporated into the performance, so it would have been nice to see some examples of that on the article page. But, as the third question brings up, the images available of the performance may not adhere to Wiki's copyright regulations, hence their absence.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
In the Talk page, conversations consist of basically questions on accuracy of certain facts, calls for more evaluation of sources, revisions to the set list that is listed, and a discussion of changing the article name to (or at least including) the hashtag that the performance was nicknamed after (#beychella). I don't see a rating, but the article is a part of 6 different WikiProjects.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
I'm not sure what the article's status is, but it still seems open for editing/manipulation and it doesn't seem to be flagged as a bad article. I think that a strength that the article had was definitely all the validated statistics that it contained (viewership numbers, ticket sales, etc). The article could maybe be improved with more perspectives- such as some cited quotes from journalists that had valid issues with the performance. I think that overall, for an event that occured two years ago, the article was very well developed.

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