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 * Climate change in the United States: (Climate change in the United States)
 * This article does a great job generalizing the topic of climate change as a whole. My specific subset of climate change I am focusing on is the energy side of it. This article does not have any "section" for energy in the article. I think it would be a great opportunity to cover that.

Lead

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 * Yes, I believe this article clearly states what it will be talking about, "global warming", "reducing total greenhouse gases". These are examples that are talked about in the first sentence, so from that, you can see that this article will be going into explaining global warming and the factors of it.
 * I would say it does. The lead is not as clear as I would imagine it should be, but it does cover the topics that will be talked about more in depth later in the article.
 * No, everything being said in the lead is talked about later in the article.
 * It is very concise. It does not overly explain things, the lead does a great job on condensing the whole article in a few small paragraphs.

==== Lead evaluation: I think the lead was overall a strong statement. It could be a "little" too condense, it could be improved on going into a little more in depth with the lead, and or a little more organized basing the organization straight off of the exact sections it will be going into. ====

Content

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 * Yes, the article is relevant to the topic I am discussing. "energy" goes hand in hand with "climate change"
 * Yes, the article was last updated in 2019.
 * I don't believe that there is any content that does not belong, although I do believe that the topic of energy is lacking. Whether it be renewable energy or energy that is hurting the environment.

Tone and Balance

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 * Yes, this article did not display any sort of bias.
 * No, I think this article presented information that was unbiased and backed up by citations or "factual information".
 * No, I would say that the viewpoint that is being underrepresented is the viewpoint of "climate change may not be as bad as people are saying", but this is a article about "climate change" after all...
 * Absolutely, I think this whole article is trying to portray to its readers that climate change is real, and its affecting many people.

Sources and References

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 * Yes, the reference page is filled with a variety of well established sources.
 * Yes, they all reflect climate change in some way, and reflect the information that they are talking about pertaining to the specific issue that is the result of climate change.
 * In the total of 145 sources, they range from early 2000's to the late 2000's (present day).
 * Yes, they go to the link that is presented in the references.

Organization

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 * Yes, it is not jumbled or all over the place. It is well written.
 * No.
 * Yes, as I noted in the first bullet point. It is very organized.

Images and Media

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 * They do, but not as many as the amount of information that is being presented. Then again, a lot of images can get confusing.
 * Yes, the images have well detailed captions underneath detailing what we are looking at.
 * Yes.
 * Yes, there are some graphs and some images. Could be better images, more that show an impact on the environment, but all in all they are good.

Checking the talk page

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 * There are questions on why things were removed and not incorporated in the page, which they then recommended there own details. Also, people were adding there own sources that they thought were relevant.
 * They were ranked pretty good.
 * I wouldn't say it doesn't differ. We have not really talked about climate change in class, and if we did it was about the basics. This talk page covers the basics, so I don't think this is much different than what we talked about in class.

Overall impressions

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 * It is a very long and informative article. The article is constantly getting updated and critiqued here and there which is a good thing, and I look forward to bringing in my own perspective.
 * The articles strengths are the length, the information, and the many different subpoints of climate change it talks about. These all tie in very well.
 * The article can be improved by adding more detailed pictures, and adding a section about energy (positives and negatives), which I will be implementing.
 * I would say it covers mostly all areas, it is well completed.

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