User:Amrice18/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Petroleum product

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to review the article in petroleum products in hopes of learning more about what around us, in our homes, cars, places of work, and school, are made of, or contain elements of petroleum. By reviewing this article my first impression was that the article was not that long. I believed this article would be long because there are many things made from petroleum.

Evaluate the article
The lead sentence for this article is informative and straight to the point. Within the lead section, a few examples of petroleum products are mentioned. It is concise, however it does not provide a brief description of the articles major topics. After reading the lead section, I was unsure of the direction of the article, but still given a concise explanation.

The content within the article is both relevant and up to date. The article was last updated in September, 2021. More than half of the references are from 2020 and 2021. I do not believe there is any content that does not belong, but rather more should have been included. The content included is simply just a list of petroleum products. I believe this article would have benefited from including topics such as, how different petroleum products are made and manufactured, data to show numbers of consumption for these products, and maybe even the environmental impacts of petroleum products.

The tone and balance of this article are great. I see no issues with neutrality, bias, or minority viewpoints. The author and editors of this article maintained an informative and unbiased article to simply inform others. The sources used within the article are all thorough and current sources. They have all been updated or edited recently with current information. The references all seem to be excellent, and informative options. All the sources are written by a diverse spectrum of authors, and all the links within the article are functioning.

From what I could tell, I did not see any spelling or grammatical errors. The basic writing of the article is good, however I wish the formatting for listing all these products was different and easier to read. With long paragraph formed lists, the article does not have an inviting format. To make up for the paragraph formed lists, the author included images to better portray some examples of petroleum products. All the images have clear pictures, with simple, yet informative descriptions. None of the images have copyright issues either.

Overall, I think this article is well written and concise. I however wish the formatting for this article were easier to read. I also believe it would have been more informative and beneficial for there to have been more information and more topics covered. The article is well developed and does not seem to have any troubling issues that need to be addressed immediately.