User:StudentDL/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Justin Bibb

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 chose this article because I will be conducting research and completing updates to this article for a class project. It is important that this article be updated so that residents of Cleveland can be more informed about their current mayor including his history and actions he has taken as Mayor of Cleveland.

My first impression is that the article can be improved with additional information about his Mr. Bibb's early career, his political priorities as mayor, and other actions he has taken.

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.)

The article has a sufficient lead section, clearly introducing the article's topic and including relevant information that is further detailed in later sections. The lead is concise, but could potentially be built up to better preview the different sections of the article while still being clear and containing relevant information.

The content of the article is generally relevant to the topic, Mayor Bibb. Some sections have seen more attention than others, particularly the election section. I would like to see other sections further developed, including the Career and Tenure sections. I also question the inclusion of mention about pro-Palestinian protestors appearing at a city council meeting as I am not sure it is entirely relevant without further context or inclusion of the mayor's response.

Overall, the tone and balance of the article is neutral as it should be for this platform. Sources come from generally neutral and informed sources such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer. One source used is the city/mayor website, which may be questionable but the information gathered from it is presented in an unbiased way and can be verified through other sources.

The article is organized well, but each section needs to be further developed. My only concern with writing is again the inclusion of the Israel/Palestine conflict without further context related to the mayor. There are no discussions on the Talk page and it has been rated as Start-Class. Overall, my impression is that the article has a base to start our work from in conducting our research and improving it.