User:Wingman's blind/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Fake news

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This course covers disinformation so I thought it would be relevant to make my evaluation on fake news.

Evaluate the article
The lead section immediately provides a simple definition of fake news, as well as a more complex definition that is quoted by a media scholar. Overall the lead section is concise and explains the definition/purpose of fake news as a whole. As far as the topic goes the wikipedia article is quite expansive, going on about the ancient history of fake news and its uses in different eras, finally ending with a list of instances of fake news use in a variety of countries. Images are within Wikipedia's copyright policies and help as visual aids and includes lots of political cartoons depicting fake news. With the article having over 400 citations its impossible to evaluate all of them, however from just checking a few they worked in sending me to the site in which they got their information, as well as the info from the source being relevant and credible to the topic of fake news. While all seems to be in order on the article page, the talk page actually shows recent discussions in which a news source was being nominated for deletion due to it not being credible (the site cited was fakenews.com and was not credible due to it being a self published source) This article is actually apart of several wikiprojects such as politics and journalism.The article is very well organized and the overall structure makes sense and is easy to follow. Ultimately I would say that given the overall size and recent relevance to this topic, the wikipedia page is well written with a particular strength being its clear organization. It's use in what is classified as "high importance" articles for wikiprojects only further leads me to believe that this article is overall in good standing, with possible exceptions that will are currently being brought up in the discussion pages.