User:Eisha Afzal/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Climate change in New York City


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's content is relevant to the topic since it talks about the urban area and the climate ecology. I do not think that it is written neutrally because it only focuses on one factor rather than more factors which are also impacted by rise in temperature, such as this article mostly talks about toxins rather than species which also are getting impacted, so there is a bias. The claims do have citations and they are reliable since they are primary sources but they are not up to date, the last year which was mentioned in the article was 2018 and a lot of changes have happened in New York that should be added to the article. And two of the links were not working in the references.  The article does not tackle wikipedia's equity gaps since it is written so broadly it does not talk about the specific groups of people who would be most impacted by rising sea levels.  I checked the talk page of this article and one of the members on wikipedia has said this article is very ambiguous since it is not clear if it's about the state or the city. I feel like adding the content about the biodiversity loss and rise in diseases can add new information about the negative impacts on New York City, if we mention the blocks in New York which have trees and how our greenery can be impacted leading to diseases and eventually people will start to move out of New York City.


 * Sources
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02691.x

(This article talks about the loss of biodiversity in plants due to temperature rising and how less species of plants or trees can lead increase increase in diseases/pathogens).

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Aviation in the New York metropolitan area


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is not directly relevant to the topic of climate ecology and it is one of the big factors which is linked to climate change. I do not think that this article is written neutrally because aviation in New York has more layers to it than just serving the passengers such as its chemical emissions. The claims do have citations and I do not think that they are reliable since I clicked on a few links and a page of a chart was showing, it just looked like a brochure rather than a primary source.   This article does not tackle wikipedia's equity gaps since around the area of the airport, the residents should be included in terms of how they get impacted by noises, and toxin emission.  On the talk page, the rating which is given to this article is start class.


 * Sources
 * https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034001/meta

(This article talks about the negative effects of the aviation due to exposure of chemicals in the environment. The people who live near the airports can be negatively impacted by it, and especially New York City which has two airports in Brough of Queens have increased the health complications and is making the air filthy).

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Sinking cities


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is related to the topic since the cities or urban areas which are off the coasts are at high risks of sinking due to higher sea levels. And it could be that the urban environments emit the most chemicals in the environment which interact with ozone layer causing the sea levels to rise I think that the article is written somewhat neutrally since it has many factors which are causing the cities to sink. The claims do have citations and they are derived from the primary sources such as scientific papers.  I don’t think that the article tackles wikipedia’s equity gaps since the urban areas are high in transport, there is more use of electricity, more factories, and airports. All of these lead to warm temperatures.  On the talk page, the article is rated C class. And no one seems to be working on this article or editing it.


 * Sources
 * https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1612066114
 * (This article talks about Green House Gases which lead to warmer temperatures and the article lacks this information which I think is critical since urban environments are mostly responsible for emitting these gasses, this article highlights the process of how it leads ro warmer temperatures which makes it one of the key causes of the world becoming warmer and warmer).

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Extinction risk from climate change


 * Article Evaluation
 * This content is related to the topic since it emphasizes the effects of warmer temperatures leading to many organisms not being able to survive. I don’t think that the article is written neutrally since it mentioned that global warming will lead to  mass extinction which is taking sides instead of providing data from an article. Most claims do have citations but some one them do not. They are reliable.  I don’t think that the article tackles wikipedia’s equity gaps because plants are also risk of extinction and the areas with lower income are not taken care of as much as rich neighborhoods  On the talk page, the article is rated start-class. And many editors pointed out problems related to this article which means it's in the process of becoming a better article.


 * Sources
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x

(This article talks about the extinction of the plants and how decrease in their diversity can pose serious complications for people).

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Pesticide toxicity to bees


 * Article Evaluation
 * This content is related to the topic since the pesticides are exposed to the environment, especially when they are sprayed. I don’t think that the article is written neutrally because the information and the phrases makes the reader believe that the pesticides are actually dangerous for bees. On the other hand, the table contained few errors as it put some pesticides under low danger when they are highly harmful. The claims do have citations, but the tables which had the pesticides contained the wrong information for some of them which tells that the citations may not be reliable.  I think the article does tackle wikipedia's equity gaps.  On the talk page, the editors pointed out the mistakes in the tables and two articles were merged to make this article since they were almost the same content and topic. It is rated start class.


 * Sources
 * https://www.apidologie.org/articles/apido/abs/2002/05/01/01.html
 * (This article talks about how the pesticides affect the behavior of the bees).