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 * Suicide of Kurt Cobain: (Suicide of Kurt Cobain)
 * It is classified as a C list article and it is a topic I care about.

Lead
The Lead does include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic and it very lightly talks about how there is differentiating opinions but I think it could use more work on the brief description of the article's major sections. I feel like the Lead is very concise but needed a little more.

Content
The article's content is relevant to the topic and it is up to date. There is no new information about the incident as far as I am aware. There is quite a bit on there that needs citations or some things that sound sort of bias. There is definitely some stuff on there that tries to be unbiased but just mentioning the conspiracy theories can be classified as bias by people who believe that his death was a suicide. I don't believe that this article deal with a topic that has been historically underrepresented, in fact, a lot of documentaries have been made and there is millions of podcasts about it.

Tone and Balance
I definitely believe that the article tries to be neutral. There is a slight bias when mentioning the conspiracies because the official police report says suicide. The tone could possibly lead to believe that the conspiracies are true. If conspiracies are gonna be given i believe that counterarguments of both sides should be given to keep it neutral.

Sources and References

 * No, there is missing citations and references in the article. Some references are media outlets, not sure how reliable those are. The references definitely have variety though. There is media outlets, books, interviews. In fact, some of the references are websites dedicated to finding people guilty of a conspiracy. Also some of the links did not work.

Organization

 * Overall, I believe the article could have been better written but it was readable and it was well organized.

Images and Media

 * The article only has Kurt Cobain's suicide note, and the house. I would have liked to see more media on it. I think they should have added the police report on it so that people can see where the information is coming from. Aside from that the pictures are well captioned.The pictures are not laid out in a visually appealing way.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions
 * There is a lot of conversation about deleting the article all together. There is a lot of controversy on whether some content should even be on the article because the focus of it was mostly the conspiracy theories and there was not enough balance throughout it. The article is rated C in many WikiProjects, those include WikiProject Biography / Musicians, WikiProject Death / Suicide, WikiProject United States / Washington / Seattle, and WikiProject Alternative music / Nirvana. There is a lot less organization in the talk page. It is a little hard to keep up. There also is some unsigned comments.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions
 * I think the article still needs a lot of work to be done so that it is more neutral and balanced all throughout. There definitely needs to be some big editing to make everything more neutral and adding relevant sources. There is a lot of people talking about how none of the article is relevant but I believe that there should be information like this out there so that there isn't people looking for information out there and being mislead. The article does have some great organization, but there is still much more to be improved, especially with tone and references. I feel like the article is poorly developed but again it might be because of the controversies in the talk page.

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