User:Delikitty/sandbox

Evaluation for Dynamic array
Yes. Contents in this page was directly related to dynamic array closely. The word "Overcome" in "Dynamic arrays overcome a limit of static arrays..." inclined to say dynamic array is better than static array? Paragraphs were balanced in this page, as well as viewpoints. They did work. Some of the reference were reliable like official Java docs, published books. However, some of them were not:
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * 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?

The 6th reference linked to a Google group discussion.

The 9th reference linked to a Github repository, which I think is a blog. (It's a popular repository though).

The 13rd reference linked to a website. In the section of Geometric expansion and amortized cost, it would be helpful to add information about removing elements and inserting elements in different  places of the array, and analyze the costs. It's part of the WikiProject Computer Science.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * 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?

Adding citation
(I actually added the citation and changed the article which were done before the deadline but I did not do it in my sandbox. )

Found these sentences from the book Unix & Shell Programming. It's actually a direct quotation so "" should be added which I did not notice at the first time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elm_%28email_client%29&type=revision&diff=832785055&oldid=805282696

Changing article
I quoted some words from text book as supplement to the current page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_policy_of_the_United_States&type=revision&diff=832783605&oldid=832611077

Choose possible Wiki Topics
Article: Environmental Policy in China

What I can improve:
 * Some of the contents in this page are out of date. When checking the reference section, I found that most citation were before 2017.
 * The Current Law section need to be updated.
 * Some determinative words and allegation of fact lacks of citation. Like the first paragraph in section History.
 * Sentences like "All 20 offices are at the si (司) level in the government ranking system ." need to be modified as the "si" actually means nothing in Chinese here. It's the pronunciation of judicial in Chinese and the character (司) is an abbreviation in Chinese.
 * More contents need to be added to the section Current Issues like soil pollution.

Article: Environmental issue

What I can improve:
 * Section Costs needs expansion.
 * Might be helpful to illustrate the difference of severity of environmental issues within various categories, like developing and developed countries, or within different continent.

Article: Environmental impact of agriculture

What I can improve:
 * In Generic engineering section, there are unbalanced viewpoints need to be modified.

Article: National Environmental Policy Act

What I can improve:
 * This article needs additional citation for verification.(In section Council and environmental quality)
 * Section Recent developments need to be updated and expanded.
 * Adding section like legal effect related to NEPA.

Finalize WiKi Topic
The final topic I chose is :  Environmental Policy in China

Things I can do:


 * Some of the contents in this page are out of date. When checking the reference section, I found that most citation were before 2017.
 * The Current Law section need to be updated, the current law, as well as the process of making it need to be updated.
 * Some determinative words and allegation of fact lacks of citation. Like the first paragraph in section History.
 * Modify some misinterpretation or wrong explanation within Chinese (like the example mentioned before).
 * More contents need to be added to the section Current Issues like soil pollution, and some new pollution source emerged recently
 * Adding contents to external links and resources.

List of reference

 * Official cite of: Ministry of Ecology and Environment
 * S Kim, S. (2018). China And The World. New York: Routledge.
 * Mao, KuoRay, and Qian Zhang. "Dilemmas of state-led environmental conservation in China: Environmental target enforcement and public participation in Minqin County." Society & Natural Resources 31.5 (2018): 615-631.
 * Diehl, P. (1999). Environmental Conflict. New York: Routledge.
 * Bounded Rationality in the Developmental Trajectory of Environmental Target Policy in China, 1972–2016

I also added this list to the article's talk page as well.

Identify what's missing from the current form of the article
Like mentioned before, one of the most urgent problem for this page is some content that needs to be update. With regard to the air pollution problem, the Chinese government has introduced many new policies recently and has achieved more or less effective results. Also some citation should be added or updated within this page.

Expand wiki
Wiki page working on: Environmental Policy in China

The word "lax" in the first sentence in the impact section shown expressed personal sentimental tendencies?

For the section "current law" that need to be updated, I found the Environmental Protection Law has not been updated since its implementation in 2015. according to the announcement of Ministry of Ecology and Environment. However, the Water Pollution Control Law was revised in 2017 for the second time and an announcement about it was published by Ministry of Ecology and Environment in January, 2018. So I think I can do the following updates on this page's current law section.

In June 2017, the Chinese government made a second amendment to the Water Pollution Prevention Act. Based on the first regulation of Water Pollution Prevention Act in 1996, the amendment will increase the punishment for water pollution and the penalty ceiling may be raised to 1 million yuan. According to the statement of the Minister of Environmental Protection, the second revised version further strengthened the responsibilities of local governments, and refined and improved the drinking water safety protection system. Since the legislation in 1984, this law has made a significant and positive contribution to improving the water environment in China. However, the quality of water environment in China is still not promising.

Peer view - Wenjing Su:

First, for the expanded wiki, we are supposed to write what we will put on wiki page instead of how we plan to change it.

Second, Environmental Protection Law was updated to a large scale in 2015 but small changes have been made continuously.

'''Third, it is mentioned that the current law system is going to be updated but only two laws are mentioned. Also, those 2 laws belong to general law and pollution law. It is very confusing without explaining the law system and just jump into the changes in those law system.'''

Dcebbie (talk) 01:06, 15 April 2018 (UTC)Professor Stine Comment -- To avoid overlap with others working on this page, please develop a new section of at least 5 sentences focused on soil pollution. This is a topic that you mentioned among your proposed changes. Do not make changes in other sections so as to not cause problems when in the end these changes are posted on the wiki page.Dcebbie (talk) 01:06, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Soil pollution
Soil pollution problems, which is the land surface degradation caused by the abuse of resources and land caused by human activities, together with corresponding protection measures in China have occurred in recent decades. In total, nearly 16.1% 0f China's soil was polluted. These pollutions have caused a serious impact on the growth of crops and the health of the people. In terms of related policies, the Chinese government decided to draw on the successful examples of other countries and integrate China's national conditions to maintain long-term governance of soil pollution problems. From the 1980s to the 1990s, China began to work on soil environmental research by starting the Modern conservation tillage research with the support of Australia. From 2000 to now, the problem of soil pollution in China has become increasingly serious. The government has gradually put the prevention and control of soil pollution issues and other environmental protection issues in the first place by charging fines for polluted factories.

China conducted a large-scale soil quality sampling analysis nationwide from 2005 to 2013 ， and according to the National Soil Pollution Survey Bulletin promulgated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China in 2014, the total national soil exceedance rate (the percentage that exceeds the upper limit value) was 16.1%, of which slight, slight, moderate and heavy degree of pollution spot is 11.2%, 2.3%, 1.5% and 1.1%, respectively. From the point of view of pollution distribution, soil pollution in the south is heavier than in the north. The soil pollution problems in some regions such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the old industrial base in Northeast China are more severe. The soil in the southwest and south-central regions has exceeded the upper limit of heavy metals tolerance. The contents of the four inorganic pollutants such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, and lead have gradually increased from northwest China to southeast China and from northeast China to southwest China. As far as the current state of legislation is concerned, China already has air pollution prevention and control law and water pollution control law, but it still lacks a soil pollution control law. In June 2017, the Ministry of Environmental Protection pointed out that China will establish a more refined working mechanism, continue to carry out investigation of soil pollution, promote the improvement of the legislative system, and fully cooperate with the National People's Congress in the legislation on soil pollution control law.