User:Skinnyeleven/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Bill Haywood

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because Bill Haywood is an important historical labor leader, and seeing how he is represented in a public encyclopedia such as wikipedia is important.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is good. Offers a good quick overview of Haywood's life and trials. However, the lead sentence focuses too much on Haywoods involvement in the IWW and SPA rather than his role as a labor organizer and leader. The content is overall good, but at points feels a little choppy in the way that it is incorporated. In the Section on Bill's Early Life, the information about his parents feels disjointed and poorly incorporated. The sourcing is generally good, but the article does draw heavily on Haywood's own autobiography, which could be seen as a biased source. The article uses images and media well. They break up the text and make the article more readable, but also are heavily biased towards the right side of the page, and more geometric balance could be helpful. The section on Haywoods' idea of racial unity in the labor movement reads very poorly from the start. The first sentence could be worked out to read more easily.

Overall the article is very good. It has a "GA" classification from wikipedia, but could use a bit of fine tuning in a couple of sections.