User:Cassidyrenee/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: (link) Economics of climate change mitigation
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.The economics to fight climate change is crucial to understand how much money needs to be spent, where the money should be spent, and avenues to mitigate that are the most cost-effective. Thus, I find the article very interesting.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? The article talks about the mitigation of climate change, but does not introduce the economics aspect of climate change mitigation well.
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? It does not.
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? No.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? I believe it is a too concise.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The content is relevant to the topic.
 * Is the content up-to-date? This topic is relevant to today's world with research, articles, and other content production.Yet, the citations only go up to 2011. I do not think it is up to date.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?
 * There is more content need and flagged to be expanded. In addition, there are a few citations missing.

Content evaluation
The content needs to be updated, claims need to be justified, and more expansion on the topics written about. Needs work.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral? The article is slightly biased.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? The appears slightly biased towards policies which mitigate climate change.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? There is some work that is too technical for the average reader.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? The author through the sources cited tries to persuade the reader to advocate for climate change mitigation policies using economics.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? No, more citations are needed.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? The sources are outdated, thus making the article outdated.
 * Are the sources current? No.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Not all of them.

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? Some parts
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? Yes.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? It is well-broken down. New sections and topics could be useful.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? 1 tiny image.
 * Are images well-captioned? Captioned, but does not connect the body of text its place by. I think its a little confusing.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? Yes.
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? No.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? Yes. On the talk page, some have said its outdated, and needs to
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? C- Level. It is part of the Wiki-Projects Economics and Environment.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? It's outdated.

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status? It is not well-developed and needs to be re-vamped.
 * What are the article's strengths? The topic was relatively new at the time and tried to tackle a big issue.
 * How can the article be improved? The article could use a face-lift with updated articles (a lot more new research has been done since it was last edited), in addition fixing typos, citations, and revamping the sections.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? Poorly developed.

Optional activity

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