Talk:Marcellus natural gas trend

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Fracking legal or not?
Fracking is legal in several eastern states, but not in New York state. Is it legal in western Maryland or western Virginia? Article should address legality, with specifics.--DThomsen8 (talk) 21:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

=Evaluation of Page for Class Assignment= This article is meant to be an overview to the topic of natural gas extraction in the Marcellus shale play. Unfortunately, the lead section of the article failed to be an effective introduction to the rest of the article. It discusses the important geologic context of the shale play, but does not outline the rest of the article. I plan to make this more of an introduction to the entire article and add geologic information as a separate section.

Overall, the body of the article flowed well. The information about development easily transitioned into economic impacts, which was then was clearly countered by environmental impacts. The sentence syntax was generally good, but sometimes quotes were not properly incorporated into sentences. Additionally, more images could be included to help convey some of the spatial information better. Particularly, a diagram depicting the structure of a fracturing well, a map of regional water usage, and a map showing earthquake activity would be useful additions. There were some sections of the article missing, but of the sections included, the information was covered equally. The headings and subheadings of the article were correct and useful, which made it well organized. The environmental impacts section was incomplete; health and air quality impacts were not included. Also, a separate section for legal cases pertaining to fracking in the Marcellus shale should be added. Some sources are included in the talk page, but there is certainly enough information to fill out its own section, even if it is only links to separate pages regarding the cases. No footnotes or appendices were used, but for the structure of the article I feel none are needed so long as the references are up to date.

Hydraulic fracturing is a very controversial topic, and this article does an excellent job of remaining unbiased. It uses technical language where possible, and vaguer, emotional diction (poison, toxic, etc) was not used. The sources used were unbiased, no activists’ blogs were used. No assumptions about the economic or environmental consequences of hydraulic fracturing were made.

I think the references is the most erroneous areas of the article. While facts are emphasized, he article has not been edited since March of 2015, which is too far in the past for a couple reasons. First, it is an article the Wikipedia has deemed of "high" importance, so it should be reviewed more frequently. Secondly, there has been numerous publications on the topic depiction major shifts in the gas trend and impacts of gas in the Marcellus region in the past 2 years. Most of the sources in the article were from peer reviewed literature or institutional or government publications, which are appropriate. Additionally, some local newspapers were cited, though these could be more biased than other sources. The evidence pulled from these news stories was purely informational, and such sources are necessary to provide localized, contextual information that may not be covered in a wider read source. For the few weblinks that were included in the references section, many had broken links and thus could not be evaluated for quality. I hope to address this issue by finding another peer reviewed sources with the correct information to replace it. Almost all statements had sources, the few that did not I will either find an appropriate source or remove the information. Fuchsgr (talk) 15:15, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

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