User:Vanja Pieniowski/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Political communication - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because political communication has always interested me. I believe that it is extremely important to use communation when it comes to poltics. Skilled communicators can go long - even though their opinions might be crazy.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: The article begins by explaining what is, and what it concerns. This makes it easy for the reader to know what the article will be about. In my personal opinion, the lead section was a bit too long for me with too many details. Although, it was interesting enough to read it all.

Content: I like how the article brings up examples such as the "Bush Administration's torture-for-intelligence policy" to support the explanation of political communication. In other words, this article addresses topics related to historically underrepresented topics. This deals with Wikipideas's equity gaps.

Tone and Balance: This article is neutral. It's fact-based, which makes the sentences sound objective, without opinions, and nonbiased. Since the article brings up both The United States and the Middle East - it shows different perspectives on political communication. This gives us different viewpoints and contributes to a more wide article.

Sources and references: Are of the sources for this article are not current. In fact, some of them are from the 1900s. This can be both good and bad. Good in a way that it can give the article information about how it was during the 1900s, but bad in a way that the information republished can be incorrect. Although, the article itself was last edited on 19 February 2023.

Organization and writing quality: The organization of this article is clear because of its sections and headers. The main one is Political Communications, and then it is structured in to five subheadings. This contributes to a feeling of structure when reading the article, which also helps the reader to find certain things when looking at it again.

Images and media: The article include one image of President George W. during his speech on immigration in Glynco, Georgia. This image helps to enhance the understanding of the topic because it involves a politician, who is communicating with other people. The image is well-captioned. The fact that the image is placed to the right, makes it not bother the text which becomes visually appealing.

Talk page discussion: The way that Wikipedia discusses this topic compared to how we have been talking about it in class differs a lot. In class when let ourselves express our opinions and create a discussion. This article is as I mentioned before objective and based on facts.

Overall impression: My overall impression of this article is that it in general is a good article. Some of its strengths are definitely the headings and subheadings, as well as visual pleasuring such as the image. Some ways that the article can improve are shorter it down a little, as well as removing some of the facts, which can make it easier to read. The article is well-developed, altough I would say that it could develop even more the more readers it gets. The different opinions of structering this article can help in become even better.