User:Skelley01/Evaluate an Article

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Max Barbakow - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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I chose this article because I am personally a fan of Max Barbakow's work and this particular Wikipedia page was severely lacking in information. Most film directors have a lot of information regarding their career, personal lives, and early lives on their page and this one only has three sentences. I think this article matters because the Wikipedia article for Barbakow's film, Palm Springs, is very extensively fleshed out and the page regarding the director should be as well. My preliminary impression of this article was disappointment, I was looking for information on this director for a presentation and was unable to find anything on this particular director.

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(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.)

The lead section consists of three sentences and comprises the entire article. It does cover the basic facts about Max Barbakow, but isn't detailed much beyond that. Even though Barbakow has only directed one currently released feature film, he does have experience directing short films that could be included in the lead section. The lead is very concise, in the sense that there isn't much there.

The content is fairly up to date, there has been some new developments with casting and such for Barbakow's upcoming project but that wouldn't necessarily be information needed on the director's wiki page.

Overall, the article is not biased in any particular way, the information that is present, while surface level, doesn't paint the subject in any particular light.

Every link on the page works and the citations are from relevant media sources pertaining to films and filmmaking news. The sources are not from a diverse range of backgrounds however, as two of the four cited sources were written by the same individual, and three of them are from the same year. Looking at sources such as Deadline Hollywood and The Wrap does seem appropriate for an article about this particular subject matter, however more citations and more up to date articles should be added.

The sentence "he also directed the upcoming film Brothers, seems a little clunky using past tense to describe an upcoming project. Other than that, there are no errors. The information that is present is divided up into sections that make sense. The section dedicated to filmography is something seen on many other director's pages.

This article currently has no images.

There are no conversations happening on the talk page of this particular article. It is a part of the Biography Wiki project, and as such needs to ensure that content posted adheres to the biographies of living persons policies. Content that could be potentially libelous needs to be removed. Overall, I would assess this article as poorly developed. The article is present on Wikipedia and there isn't much more that can be said. This article can be improved by adding subheadings about the director's early life and more information about his career, such as where he studied filmmaking, and the names of the short films he has made. The article could also improve with the addition of a photo and more general information about the person such as birthdate, age etc. The article has not been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale and therefore does not have a rating.