User:Taylor.daws/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Public interest law

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because in the class Global Poverty 105 that I am taking at UC Berkeley, I have focused my research on public interest law. The section of this article on public interest law in the United States is relatively brief, so I feel like I have relevant information I could add to this article regarding the funding and effectiveness of public interest law organizations in the United States.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of this article clearly defines public interest law and sets up the the rest of the article that will go into depth about how this type of law works in different countries/regions of the world. It is also concise, making up a total of six sentences.

In terms of content, some of the countries such as Italy have very little information about them while others go into more detail. There are also many countries/regions left out of the article entirely such as the Middle East, which causes me to question if public interest law is not practiced in these areas or if there are gaps in the information provided. Additionally the content provided for the countries that are talked about is brief. They do not go into the funding or effectiveness of this type of work in the United States, which is critical information when evaluating this type of practice. While the effectiveness of litigation is briefly referenced in the article Legal mobilisation, this article has only a few sentences written apart from the intro and seems very unfinished.

The tone of the article seems very neutral and while there are debates about the effectiveness of this type of law and whether the government should fund public interest law organizations, no political views were reflected in the article. The article was also organized in a way that was easy to follow. It may have been nice to have subheadings within the main region/country headings, however I am unsure if this is a common practice on Wikipedia.

Within both the scope of the WikiLaw Project and WikiProject Politics, this article was rated Start-Class on the project's quality scale and Top-Importance on the project's important scale. I agree with the Start-Class rating because it seemed to still be lacking content and could use more source. I think the content that is there is meaningful, however I think it most readers will need more.

Overall, I think this article does a good job defining public interest law and giving a brief introduction on its history and function in certain countries/regions, however I think it could benefit from more detailed information and a few more recent sources.