User:Cahisimivca/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Anthropocene Working Group

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article because it correlates with some of the studies that we have already been learning in my Anthropology class. This topic of discussion is very interesting to me because of the nature of what is being discussed is so relevant to our current days, when discussing the geological time period that we could possibly call what we are living in at this moment of great instability regarding our future on this planet because of the effects that our presence on this planet as humans has caused our planet to change drastically in just the last 100 years of our existence.

Evaluate the article
I believe that the lead section of the article was informative and had a clear concise description of what the article would entail within it as you continued on reading it.

The content of the article was detailed, up to date, relevant and informative to the history of this specific group, their research process in explaining and trying to pinpoint the importance of their groups work on the term Anthropocene and why its of importance in the scientific community for their research on this matter to carry on and continue their efforts to get the recognition for this specific geological time period that they believe in.

The tone and balance of the article is pretty neutral, there aren't a lot of peoples own opinions or ideals in the article that would lead to a opinion article. It was strictly there to just inform people of what there group is, what it consists of and what their overall goal is for their group.

All of the information in the article are backed up by what seems like reliable sources from the lead section to the history and research sections while the media sections needs some citations at the end of it, but besides that you can see all of the cited information in the reference section at the end of the article. You click on the citations and see where they come from and what affiliations or outlets they are form and it seems like verified sources as you go through the different sites and articles that make up the article, but others are just written documents or files that could be just anyone's written opinion on any of the information that is cited within the article, so this could make the article in some parts questionable in its reliability.

I think that overall impressions of the article are clear, it seems from its critique that it needs more information which is understandable there seems to be a lot of room for more information on different parts of the article to make it more complete as a Wikipedia page. The ranking of the article was start-class which is somewhere in the middle of the quality scale and it showed that it was a developing article but still needs more information and it might or might not have some adequate sources in the article. I think to be honest the nature of this specific article would not lead it to be the highest ranking being a featured article because it is not about the term Anthropocene itself which is very interesting, it is just about a specific group that is trying to make the Anthropocene a reality to what our current geological time period should be called. The article I think is best described by its rating basically good but incomplete and has the space to get better.