User:Cole bodine/sandbox/Article Evaluation

Evaluating Content

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * The article had information that was relevant to the topic and described it well.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Only two sources were from within the last 10 years. However, I think the article did a good job explaining technological change.
 * What else could be improved?
 * I believe that the article works under the assumption that the person reading it knows more than they probably do; in other words, much of the language in the article is technical and hard to understand for the average reader.

Evaluating Tone

 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The article appears to speak from a neutral view point. Even when citing information from possibly biased standpoints, they point those information out as beliefs that people have and do not explicitly state it as their own, and also use opinions from other sources to counter it without injecting their own personal biases.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * No

Evaluating Sources

 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Links to other Wikipedia pages and a few other sources work, however there are indeed ones that do not work. This might be because my computer is a Chromebook and can't open the web pages, or because the sources are so old that the websites have been taken down, I can't tell which.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Some sources are biased. For example, one source referenced is a book title Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment, and the link takes you to an unprofessional looking website that is tailored towards environmental activists.

Checking the Talk Page

 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * I see comments and conversations going on discussing references on information that could have been used for the article to improve it. Someone there also said the same thing I did regarding the technical terminology that might be hard for some people to understand.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * No. The comments that I've seen are constructive criticism, simply offering references that could help improve the article and suggestions for doing so.