User:AndreaNwilliams/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Albedo

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article out of the Environmental Sciences section because it was a topic I am partly familiar with and I wanted to learn more.

Evaluate the article

 * Lead section: This section begins by providing a basic definition of the topic, followed by more background information on who introduced the term and fields that the topic is used in today. The lead seems to lack the sub-topics that will be mentioned later on in the article. It also might be too overly detailed for an introduction to the topic.
 * Content: By starting with the two different types of albedo, the article equally describes both in their own sections. It goes further by providing many examples of terrestrial albedo, however does not talk more about astronomical albedo since I'm guessing there is not much information about it on other planets. The article seems up-to-date because some of the sources are from within the past 10 years, making this information updated.
 * Tone and Balance: The tone represented throughout the article is neutral and informative. Nothing mentioned seems to be heavily biased because the article is just presenting facts and information, not a particular viewpoint on albedo.
 * Sources and References: There are many sources cited throughout this article and all seem to be reliable, peer-reviewed articles or sources from a textbook or journal. Many of the sources are very recent and apply relevant information to the topic. All of the links checked worked and led to the scientific peer-reviewed article. The list of sources also seems to have a lot of variety, not all coming from the same author or textbook.
 * Organization and writing quality: The writing throughout the article is concise and professional. It would be easy to read for someone with no knowledge on the topic. I didn't notice any grammatical or spelling errors throughout the article. I also enjoy the organization of the article and how each example of albedo is separated into its own section, making it easy to find a specific example.
 * Images and Media: The images and graphs used add to the article in better representing what albedo is, however I think they could've added more images to the article. They all have proper copyright citations and their descriptions of the images and graphs concisely describe what they are representing.
 * Talk page discussion: The Talk page includes some suggestions on changes to the page, insight on links to references that do not work anymore, and replacements to those links. Some of the comments seem unnecessary on the Talk page, which have been commented on again by other editors. There have not been any comments on the Talk page since 2010 which leads me to believe there has already been a lot of editing and insight taken in by the author.
 * Overall impressions: Overall this article did a great job at being informative on a topic and adding examples that better enhance the information learned about the topic. The strengths are the descriptiveness of the examples of various types of albedo. I believe it could be improved by adding more images or graphs and maybe more studies being currently performed on albedo. Since this article has been worked on by a lot of edit suggestions in the Talk tab, I believe it is now well formed and only needs to be improved by continuing to add information that is new regarding the subject.