User:Tylo13/Evaluate an Article

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The Vampire Diaries

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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I chose this article to evaluate because it is one of my favorite tv shows. I know a lot about it and have some background knowledge, so it would be easier for me to evaluate since I have knowledge about it. I think this article was set up very well.

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.)

I feel that this article had a very good lead section. I was able to tell what it was going to be about from the first sentence. The lead sentence effectively introduced the article's topic. If I wanted more information, I could read more into the section and learn more information about The Vampire Diaries. It introduces the series very nicely, with episode numbers and seasons, along with an introduction to the main character, Elena Gilbert. It also lists when the first episode aired and some of the rating results.

I feel that this article had a pretty good content section. The articles content was relative to the topic. Everything included was related to The Vampire Diaries. It included information about the cast and who they play, notes about the production of the series, how viewers reacted to the series based on the season and the reviews/ratings. It also included when the different seasons got released on DVD and Blue ray. I was able to get a clear, quick, and concise summary of the plot of the series. The series overview was spot on, without revealing too much information. There was a section about The Originals spin off, but there was not a section for the other spin off, Legacies. The content does seem up to date and not missing a lot of information.

This article had a neutral point of view. I did not feel like I was being pressured to like this show. The article was neutral overall and I did not see any claims that were heavily biased. I was able to see and learn everything from a neutral point of view. The information was all facts.

The links for the references do work. Some of the references were not the best, they were not from peer reviewed publications or academic journals. Some of the sites were commercial (.com), but some were .org. I feel like there was a good mix of both used. I feel as though most of the references used are not reliable were commercial. All of the facts in the article do have a secondary source to back it up. There are many references used (171).There are also hyperlinks included for some key words and phrases.

The article composition was set up very well. It was concise, clear, and easy to read. It was set up into sections, like cast and character, ratings, series overview, etc. There were no grammatical or spelling errors that I saw.

This article does not include very many images. The images that are seen are well captioned. There is The Vampire Diaries logo and The Originals logo. There is also a picture of Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, and Ian Somerhalder all sitting next to each other, placed by the "Cast and Characters" section of the article.

There is not much going on in the talk page. There was conversations about adding romance to the tags for the page, and removing a dead link from the references page, and a suggestion on creating a franchise page.

Overall, I think that this article is very well done. It lists many important key aspects of The Vampire Diaries series and explains things very well, including the plot and characters. The article is well developed. The only thing missing from it could be an addition of the topic on the spin off series Legacies.