User:Barracuda22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Petroleum transport

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because as I needed to choose a petroleum-centric article and this particular one stood out as interesting as it went through different types of transportation, some of which I wasn't aware of previously. This article matters because it goes through these types of transportations for petroleum, and some of the safety issues, cost, and pollution topics that are important to the topic's understanding. I also chose this topic because in my initial reading a lot of grammar issues stood out to me, and I wanted to explore it more in depth to see what other errors I could find.

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.)

The article does not have information about how the transportation systems affect lands originally owned by Native Americans, notably the recent pipeline controversy. This would contain both an equity gap as well as out of date information. A article from a news station is used "Pipeline leak spills 5 million litres from Alberta oilsands | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2018-04-07." as well as a article written by a company "Study Shows Pipelines are Safest Way to Transport Oil". Audubon Companies. 2014-11-13. Retrieved 2021-10-05. There was no mention of possible bias in the article. Tone needs work as bias is shown towards the utilization of pipelines as well, I think this comes from the unreliable sources. The bias is most prominently shown in "Pipelines offer the most efficient mode of transporting this oil across a land mass." The content could be worked on as "1.3.1 Pipeline versus rail debate" is separated from "2.1 Costs: pipeline vs rail." This doesn't quite make sense from an organizational standpoint. There are several instances of grammar issues, such as "First the oil is collected at the wellhead..." and "Also the amount of manpower needed..." where there needs to be a comma after "First" and "Also."