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Article title
Thermocline

Article Evaluation
Ranked as "start-class" with mid-level importance. This article can use some updating. There are only two sources and they are used very infrequently. It doesn't even mention thermohaline in its description!! I also think it could use a section on "the warm blob" and other cases where ocean water masses stratify.

Article title
Biogeochemical Cycle

Article Evaluation
Also rated “start-class” with top-importance. A lot of information is glossed over, and human impact is only touched on. I think beefing up the sections and including more sections on how humans are affecting different biogeochemical cycles would be good.

Article title
Microplastics

Article Evaluation
This page is rated “C-class” with high-importance. While there is a lot of information on the page, I can’t help but be thrown off by the first line : "Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment". While this is true, it’s a second life of microplastics and therefore should be in a subsection or the article should be renamed. Microplastics aren't only pollutants, they're also used to make other objects. There is also general information written under the subsections, ex. Primary microplastics. I can go on but there’s just too much.