User:Ablip/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Since our group topic is on global ecology and climate, I had the idea to focus on how climate change and human interference negatively impacts wildlife. I think all of these articles can use additional information on this topic.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Effects of Climate Change
 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section:
 * The leading sentence of the article captures the overall theme. The lead briefly discusses each subheading within the article and provides the reader with embedded links to jump to specific sections.
 * Content:
 * The content is relevant and current. It covers a very wide scope of the effects of climate change.
 * Tone and Balance:
 * The article is neutral and factual.
 * Sources and References:
 * There are a lot of sources in this article from a variety of sources like NASA, IPCC, Science Journal, and WMO. There are almost 300 sources listed mostly from the past 20 years.
 * Images and Media:
 * The images are applicable to the subheadings they are found under. The images are also linked to the articles they were found in.
 * Organization and Writing Quality:
 * This article is well organized into multiple categories and to me is pretty smooth to read.
 * Talk Page:
 * There is a lot of discussion on the talk page, which is great! Reading through it I can see that people are collaboratively working together to better the article by asking others for advice or for their opinion on formatting.
 * Overall:
 * The article was listed as a C on Wikipedia, indicating that there is more information that could be added to it. The sections on weather-related impacts is very extensive and thorough. I think adding to how climate change affects wildlife could be improved.
 * Sources
 * Effects of climate change
 * https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.182.5509&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=319
 * - Discussed how low and middle income areas take up approx. 3/4 of the world's urban population. These urban areas are at high risk to facing the consequences of climate change (flooding, heat wave, etc).
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1462901116303501
 * - A bit more positive than the first article, this article discusses how urban areas in Japan are effectively transforming urban areas to sustain natural disasters (like flooding) from the effects of climate change.
 * - A bit more positive than the first article, this article discusses how urban areas in Japan are effectively transforming urban areas to sustain natural disasters (like flooding) from the effects of climate change.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Pollution
 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section:
 * The lead section of this article defines pollution and the different forms of pollution which is discussed further in the article.
 * Content:
 * The content is relevant to the topic. Under the effects subheading, there is no discussion on the effects pollution has on wildlife.
 * Tone and Balance:
 * Overall, the article is pretty neutral. One section that I wish explored the alternative point of view was under textile industry. The article discusses how big brands like Puma, Adidas, and Nike "committed" to not putting harmful chemicals into the environment but failed. The idea was left at that, I think it would have been beneficial to touch on why as these are major companies contributing to textile production pollution.
 * Sources and References:
 * There are a number of sources used in this article coming from university publications, journals, and news articles.
 * Images and Media:
 * I feel like the images were pretty fitting for the accurate. I would have moved the image of the blue grate in the UK from the human generation subheading to the control section.
 * Organization and Writing Quality:
 * The article is pretty organized although some of the sentence structures seem a bit choppy. I would edit this article to make reading it a bit smoother sentence by sentence.
 * Talk Page:
 * While reading the talk page I noticed that this article has been used in WikiEdu projects before. The talk page also had some semi-protected editing requests which I have not seen before.
 * Overall:
 * Like the previous article, this article was also listed as a C on Wikipedia. I noticed while reading this article that there is not a subsection on the effects pollution has on wildlife, so I think that is something that can be improved.
 * Sources Pollution
 * https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5841952
 * - Discusses how industrialization (General Electric Company) contributes to pollution in Hudson river.
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/25028456
 * - Discusses pollution in Hudson River in NYC.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Marine Ecosystem
 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section:
 * The lead section of this article relates to the article title. No new information seems to be in this section.
 * Content:
 * The content of the article is relevant to the topic. There is thorough information about how a marine ecosystem is categorized and the different types of marine ecosystems.
 * Tone and Balance:
 * The tone is neutral and factual.
 * Sources and References:
 * There are a good number of sources for this article, a lot coming from government organizations (EPA, UNESCO, NOAA). I also noticed that some of the sources go back 50 years, so there is a good amount of variety in when the information was collected.
 * Images and Media:
 * The images are helpful in showing what each type of ecosystem looks like. The captions indicate the ecosystem present in the image.
 * Organization and Writing Quality:
 * Well organized and smooth to read.
 * Talk Page:
 * Similar to the article on Pollution, this article was used in a WikiEdu project before.
 * Overall:
 * The article is also listed as a C. The article describes each ecosystem well but I would add more information under the threats section, specifically invasive species and climate change. There is barely any information under those sections.
 * Sources
 * Marine ecosystem
 * https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5841952
 * - Discusses how industrialization (General Electric Company) contributes to pollution in Hudson river.
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/25028456
 * - Discusses pollution in Hudson River in NYC.

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 * Article Evaluation
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Option 5

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