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 * Paseo Tablado La Guancha (Paseo Tablado La Guancha)
 * I choose to evaluate this article because it is a place I liked to visit during summer time when I was a child.

Lead

 * The introductory sentence clearly describes the article’s topic by mentioning that the Paseo Tablado La Guancha is a boardwalk located in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Content

 * The content is up to date as it has the development and changes the boardwalk has gone through in recent years. The recent development of the place being: damaged by hurricane María in 2017 and made inoperable by the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in January of 2020.

Tone and Balance

 * For the most part the article is neutral, but in the “atmosphere” section, it uses adjectives as “good” and “great” to describe the boardwalk. Despite being true for a lot of people, the section needs improvement to be as objective as possible. With better wording, the atmosphere can be explained without a bias point of view. As a suggestion, to give more accurate information, a survey can be done to the people that have visited the boardwalk. Then, according to the data and review, all points of view from the people can be presented. By adding information like that, the article can be more complete.

Sources and References

 * Four of the nine references in the article do not work. They need to be updated to ones that are accessible to consult.

Organization

 * The article does not seem to have grammatical or spelling errors and the words in Spanish are correctly written and between apostrophes. Also, the sections make it very easy to understand.

Images and Media

 * The article provides two images of the Paseo Tablado La Guancha. The images have a description below and show what is explained in the description area, making it easy to visualize the information. The first picture gives information regarding the location, coordinates, owner of the boardwalk, along with other information that may be of interest and curiosity to the reader. Furthermore, it has a side with the attractions of the place, so the reader can understand what types of activities are typically done in the area.

Checking the talk page

 * The article is part of the WikiProject Puerto Rico and has been rated C-Class according to the project’s quality scale and as Mid-importance on their important scale. One of the characteristics of articles rated in this class is that they are substantial but may be missing important information.

Overall impressions

 * Overall, it is a good article that gives the reader an idea of the place and what it has but it can be improved to go more in depth with the topics it provides. For example, it can add different points of view from the people who have visited and where they come from. It can give the names of the kiosks and a more detailed description of the type of food they specialize in. Besides, the boardwalk is known for its tower, so it can give information of when was it built and for what reason. In addition, it is very common for salsa and bachata groups to play in the boardwalk, it can give details of the singers and musicians that have visited. Furthermore, it can provide images of the current status of the boardwalk now that it is inoperable and maybe add a section describing what are the future plans for the Paseo Tablado La Guancha, if any will be made by their owners, the Ponce Municipal Government. Also, the people that visit the boardwalk tend to feed the fishes that are in those water, so a section can be added to explain the type of fish they are. Those are some examples of things that can be added. Lastly, adding sections of topics that have relationship with the place can help in the completeness of the article.