User:Cbergeson/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Swamp

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp did not have its own Wikipedia page. This is the more general page.

Lead section
I think this article had a good lead section.

Content
This article did a good job of including a lot of the surface-level important information about swamps. However, the article left out some key information about swamps, such as, an overview of the cultural significance. It also talked very little about the relationship of animals to swamps, other than to say that they are important breeding grounds for fish.

Tone and Balance
This article was mostly neutral in tone, but not very balanced. I thought that the choice to have notable examples of swamps and a list of major swamps as separate sections did not make sense. These two sections could be combined. The notable examples section spent a lot of space on swamps in North America and Asia, but very little on African swamps and did not include Europe at all. If the article is going to mention notable swamps in Africa and the largest swamp in South America, then these should be fleshed out as much as the descriptions of swamps in Asia and North America.

Sources and References
In the list of major swamps, the Sundarbans cites an article about tigers that really has very little to do with swamps. If the article is going to include a citation for this swamp (unlike all the rest), another citation should be chosen. It is unclear to me why this article is cited.

There are also some citations in the Asia section that are included as in-text APA style citations instead of Wikipedia linked citations. These should be changed to match the style of the rest of the page.

Organization and writing quality
The impacts and conservation section is a little disjointed and seems to mention some random conservation facts, instead of presenting a coherent overview of general swamp impacts and conservation efforts. If it is necessary to go into several specific examples, these should be more fleshed out in separate paragraphs or listed and linked to individual pages.