User:BuckskinBasher90/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Natural building

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article appears interesting and complete enough to have lots of material to evaluate. It is also lacking in some areas so I can discuss that in my evaluation.

Lead Section
This lead section starts off with a strong introductory sentence in the first paragraph. All the information discussed in the two paragraphs of the lead section is relevant and included in the article. However, I think that both the paragraphs explain the same concepts twice and could be combined into one, more concise paragraph.

Content
The content of the different materials natural building is excellent. I think this article is lacking on techniques to promote natural ventilation as well as water reuse/collection and other non-material aspects of natural building. This could be more of a topic for green building rather than natural building. This distinction was discussed in the talk page as a proposal for a merger. Perhaps this article could be renamed natural building materials and focus more on the materials and their production and usage in the past as well as modern times. Or this article could be merged with green building.

Tone and Balance
The tone of this article is kept neutral throughout. Much of the content is simply a description of the material and how it is used and produced. There is good balance between the ways these materials were used before and how they are implemented in modern times.

Sources and References
The sources and references in this article are severely lacking. Many of the paragraphs and sub categories of materials are missing in text citations.

Organization and writing Quality
I would argue that the specific materials need to go under the materials heading, not after techniques. It would probably be best if the materials and techniques sub headings were combined into just one subheading. There is also issues with the lead section being concise as I previously mentioned.

Images and Media
Images and media that are present are great and give good examples of the materials. But images should be added to each individual material section.

Talk Page
The talk page shows a decent amount of history/discussion of the article, with one very in depth thread on whether or not to merge this article with green building.

Overall
This article has some great information but it could be restructured. A more in-depth view would be needed to decide whether to merge this article with green building, or perhaps just have this article focus on natural building materials itself. It could also be left broad as natural building and cite more source on all aspects of natural building rather than just the material. This article also needs a lot of work on citations and references.