User:Cc20frai/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Aletsch Glacier

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Because for the assignement I have to do for my university course I have to make a wikipedia page about a natural park and I thing that it could be similar to the kind of informations we can find on this page. Moreover, the Alestch Glacier is a swiss Glacier that I know quite good since I live in Valais, the swiss region where this Glacier is located.

Evaluate the article
The lead section introduce well the topic. There is a first sentence that describe briefly the Glacier and his size. We know from the begining what the article is going to talk about and there isn't any informations that the article don't develop after.

The content is clear and neutral. However, I think that the section on geography is a little too heavy compared to the others. It's very detailed and it's difficult to really imagine the place. Perhaps a diagram would have been useful and the number of names of other glaciers and valleys could be reduced. As for the under-represented subjects, I think it would have been a good idea to add a paragraph on global warming. The article mentions it briefly, but it's a subject that seems crucial enough to me to make a paragraph of it. Add to that the effects it could have on the whole of the Alpine environment, the flora and fauna and the people living in the region.

The tone and balance are right. The article is neutral. As already mentioned the geography is a bit over represented but that doesn't seem to be non-neutral.

On the subject of references, I think there are a few missing. Some articles don't even have a single reference, the article on panorama for example. The one on geography also has very few, as these subjects are not very controversial, so it's not necessarily necessary to have multiple points of view, but more references are necessary. As far as existing references are concerned, I've been able to distinguish 3 major ones. ETHZ, Swissinfo and PronaturaSuisse. These are reliable sources, but only Swiss ones. Of course, this glacier is in Switzerland, but the sources should be more varied.

For the organization and the writing it is difficult for me to really judge it because english is not my first language.

The images are good, as I said before a diagram to explain the geography would be nice. The article was graded as B-article which mean that the informations are good but further work is needed to reach a good article criteria.