User:Xinyuy22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
2020 in Asian music (Talk: 2020 in Asian music)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. No matter from which category -- "Regional and national music", " Asia", or "Years" -- this article was labeled as "Low-importance". I am very curious about the reason behind such low ratings so I chose to analyze and evaluate this article.

Evaluate the article

 * 1) Contents:
 * 2) * I found myself completely lost in this article because of the confusing connections between the lines and unclear relationships between subtitles. The article listed a bunch of events to set off the beginning. The first event is about some Turkish band group members who were taken to hospital but refused treatment. Why is this event important? Can this event be considered a milestone or turning point for "2020 in Asian music"? This event is much different than the other 3 events talking about music albums. In addition to that, the events included here do not follow a chronological order, with the second event happening in July and the third event introduced in May. The rest of the article is filled with all kinds of names for songs, albums, artists, dates of music release, and Asian Countries affiliations, which is not very informational. I am not quite sure why the authors decided to name "Deaths" of the artists without telling us their art pieces or giving any other background information other than deaths' reasons and nationalities, which seems to be the least relevant to the scope of "music". The divisions of section contents for this article are a disaster. In my opinion, the "Deaths" section would be part of the "Event" section; "Classical" is a genre and appeared very suddenly and unexpectedly after talking about "Events"; "Albums" "Opera" "Film and TV scores" can be 3 paralleling topics, yet the "Musical Films" is actually a branch of "Film and TV score"; "By country" is a type of criteria to sort out information and arrange the contents, it is not appropriate to be a separate subtitle when the majority of the subtitles are divided based on art forms.
 * 3) * Everything in this article looks like a product of a "stream of consciousness" without planning the outlines, presenting in a way of lacks organization.
 * 4) * The countries covered in the article are mostly Japan, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Turkey, with only a few mentioning Korea, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Iran, and Israel. It contains an issue of overrepresentation and underrepresentation for some Asian countries that do even not appear in the whole article. It makes sense to be categorized as "low importance" for the scope of "Asia" on Wikipedia.
 * 5) * After reading the article, I can hardly form takeaways as there is too little information demonstrated and I couldn't make any conclusion around the year 2020 about Asian music.
 * 6) * There is no image or media embedded.
 * 7) Tone:
 * 8) * The article could be considered as neutral as all the texts are hyperlinked artist's names or artworks and there is barely any statement or claims, let alone being heavily biased.
 * 9) Sources:
 * 10) * The sources indeed come from diverse publications and authors. However, many sources are coming from news websites (i.e. The Guardian, Newage, etc.) and many of the sources are written in foreign languages used in Asian countries, which makes it hard to evaluate the reliabilities.
 * 11) * The links of the sources work.
 * 12) * There are repeated references appear. References 1 & 29 come from the same news article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/banned-turkish-folk-group-member-dies-following-hunger-strike and it is more than 4 years old.

Overall, I believe the quality of this article is under the average and the "C-class" category and "Low-Importance" rating given by Wikipedia makes sense.