User:Aman-Maryam/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Sustainable development

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because my research is on one aspect of sustainability in architecture and making it a part of my Wiki Education course will be beneficial for me in the long run. My preliminary impression of this article was quite good but after reading it critically, I realized that some of its sections can be improved to make an A-class article.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of the article explains the concept reasonably well but the main scheme behind the concept (social, economic, and environmental development) could be mentioned right after the definition so as to highlight the three main components of Sustainable Development. The sentence: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" has been repeated a few times, it could be rephrased to improve the narration of the article.

The section on 'Architecture and construction' could be expanded more to highlight the influence of this industry on the sustainable development in terms of the three pillars (social, economic, and environmental development) mentioned in the article. The section titled 'Land use changes, agriculture and food' could be edited to include 'water' and move 'Land use changes' to 'Architecture and construction'.

Citation is needed for some of the claims in the article. The link for citation 4 (Blewitt, John (2015). Understanding Sustainable Development (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415707824 . Retrieved 26 November 2017.) is not working. The links given for two reports by UN are also broken. The 'References' section needs to be re-worked to add new citations and remove the ones that do not work anymore. The tone of the article can also be improved in some sections to make it neutral.

The article is rated as a C-Class content on Wikipedia but it still provides some good quality information about the concept and the way it has been implemented in business, land-use, agriculture, food, industry, and so on. The article is a part of WikiProjects and some conversations are going on in the 'Talk' section so there is a high probability of this article being improved.