User:ZPineapple/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Talk:Softball - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the softball article to evaluate because it is a topic I feel like I know a lot about and could determine the accuracy and detail of the article based on my knowledge. I chose the article from the C-class list of articles under the subheading sports.

Evaluate the article
The lede section of the article is somewhat redundant and repeats that softball is pitched underhand twice. The page relies on readers already having prior knowledge of the sport which is kind of teh opposite of the point of wikipedia. Adding additional information about how the sport is actually played, removing the redundancies and unnecessary facts from the lede could improve the article.

The equipment section of the article is also somewhat confusing. There is a lot of attention and detail on the specifications of the ball and gloves but not much information about bats, what are the most common bats or why some bats may be used over others. I think that it might be useful to have separate pages for those sections so that more information could be included without overloading the softball page.