User:Atticusdarwin/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The article I have chosen stands out to be because after viewing lecture material on the 2nd week of classes I noticed that this would be an important topic as the natural rate of gas emissions compared to man made emissions would greatly change as time went on, and this fact would further change the future of the planet, as the next potential Ice Age may not even occur because of the effect us humans have on the planet. My first impression of this article was that it was very informative on the topic and it gave knowledge on not only natural gas, but other types of fuel in relation to it as well as the effects on the environment it has in comparison to other fuel sources.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)


 * This article is about natural gas. Many different aspects such as usage, safety, effects, location, history, etc., are discussed in this article. Every major section contains context in their introductions as well as subsections for further clarification. It is evident that this article was worked on/edited by multiple people and many reputable sources are used. The page contains graphs and images to provide support to facts when appropriate.


 * Upon reading the entirety of the article, many of the sources used are up to date (this includes photos, references, and graphs). Upon checking links/hyperlinks such as those used for graphs or references, they do work and information from the source does match to an extent with the article, meaning that the sources used are valid.
 * I assume that many people worked on and edited this article in the past. There is more than 2000 characters worth of information and over 100 different citations/references used. There are no grammatical errors or any clear mistakes to this nature, and this article is neither biased nor does it focus too heavily on a specific topic. The topics are abundant but at the same time brief with links to further readings if one wishes, which helps the reader out if they were looking for a subsection in particular to review or read.
 * At the time of review the article is classified as a B-class article, which is somewhere near the middle in terms of validity, organization, and reliability. I believe the ratings would be higher if some parts of the article were polished up, such as providing perhaps more subsections and answering frequently asked questions by viewers who search natural gas for information upon it. At the same time, we cannot judge too much as if you wanted information, you can get much more qualitative responses by checking out the appropriate links and references for what you're looking for. Overall this article provides a good summary of the topic and if readers need more information I believe that checking out the linked pages will give good information you can use to understand the topic as well as cite for work on the topic.