User:BornAYasMain/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
History of the petroleum industry

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The article was chosen because oil is one of the worlds most abundant natural resources, it is interesting because it covers the entire history of the industry, how it began many years ago, to how it looks in modern day and age (different types of oil industries). It was pretty interesting partly learning about the history but I saw there was a lot of text with no citations, which could be improved.

Evaluate the article
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When evaluating the content, the information was relevant to the topic at hand, and covered many aspects of the oil industry, heavily covering the history and different types of oil industries. For information that could be added, information on oil production in some of the other top oil producing countries (UAE, Iran etc) could be helpful. To improve the article, adding more citations in the early-modern history of the industry could be helpful, or even throughout the article as there was often many paragraphs with no citations in them. The article remains neutral, however only really goes into detail about the United States when it comes to early oil production, but could do with more information on other countries at the time (if there is information present on the matter). Clicking on a few citations, from the few I clicked on, some took me to the bottom of the references page and had no link to an external sites, but a few did. Clicking on a few sites that did have links, some led to scientific papers written on the matter, some to old news reports on the topic, and others to other peer reviewed articles. Some of sources could be viewed as unreliable, but a majority of the valid links led to reliable sources. In the talk tab, there are discussions on whether certain information is correct or not, people asking if more information on the topic at hand is available for certain subtopics, and also suggestions on what to add for certain sections (such as modern history). Also the article itself is not apart of any WikiProjects but it is of interest to a few of them such as Engineering, Trade, and Environment.