User:Tnestle21/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Anne Arundel County Public Library

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I live in Anne Arundel County and plan to evaluate the library for a couple of my MLIS courses so I thought it would be good to see what was on the Wikipedia website about it. At first glance, the article appears to be very limited in scope.

Evaluate the article
The lead section briefly explains what the AACPL is and when it was created. However, it includes the original name of the library in the lead but does not include that name in the main article. The lead does not describe the main sections that appear in the article.

There does not appear to be any bias in the article.

Some of the sources are from the AACPL website, which may not be the best source for everything in the article. For instance, the article states that a certain woman was the first librarian and cites to the AACPL website. When you go to that website, the website itself cites a book for that information. Someone should look up the book and see if the information is correct and if so then they should cite the book and not the AACPL website. Also, some of the history section appears to be paraphrasing information from a couple of websites and may be violating Wikipedia's rules about paraphrasing information.

The article is well-organized by sections. However, most of the sections don't contain a lot of data. They could be filled in more.

There are no images. The Annapolis library was rebuilt a few years ago and it would make sense to include some pictures from that library.

There are no discussions on the talk page. At the top of the article, there is a warning that it has multiple issues. One is that it might not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. However, I do think that there should be an article about the AACPL; it just needs to be more fully developed and should be better sourced. I would recommend editing it to fill in the missing pieces and add better and more sources.