User:Dml108/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Great Acceleration

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is classified as a start article, meaning it can use a lot of help to build it up. The Great Acceleration is very interesting to me as it applies to the era of advancement we live in and it's connections to the environment and our economy.

Evaluate the article
The article mentions that the Great Acceleration could be the epoch, one of the epochs, or defining feature of the Anthropocene, but is very vague in it's description of what each of those definitions would mean in the context of the Anthropocene, leaving the reader confused.

The article also names trends without expanding on them, leaving much of it left to the interpretation of the reader. The graphs used on the page feel clustered and messy. The text is too small too see without zooming in and makes it difficult for people with vision problems to read. Multiple factors measured on different scales are placed on the same graph, making it difficult to interpret. Rather than relying on these graphs to portray the effects of the Great Acceleration, the article should give an explanation for each trend it lists.

The second paragraph seems out of place and incomplete. It mentions two juxtaposing theories without elaborating on the basis for each of them. It could be deleted or expanded on in a more thorough section of its own.

In the last sentence of the third paragraph, it is unclear where this information came from.

The third and fourth citation appear to be incomplete, which makes me question the reliability of the sources.