User:Emilygabrielle/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

The reason I chose the National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment is because, I believe that these public environmental conferences, such as this one, are extremely important in bringing ideas together that have the potential to help further the fight for climate change. I actually had not heard of this particular conference so that is another reason I chose it, to learn more about it, because environmental policy is something that really interests me the most about Environmental Studies. However - there was not much information given on it,

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead Section

The lead section does include a clear opening sentence that thoroughly describes what the Conference is. The lead does not include a description of the articles major sections because the article does not have enough information to have more than one section. The lead is concise and explains as much as it can.

Content

The content is relevant to the article, because is labels the goals that Conference aims to have. I think the content is up to date as it can be - the most recent update is from 2018, but I think that maybe the pandemic made the Conference halt future conferences planned, therefore leaving this not as updated. I think that there is a lot of information missing from the content, the official website for the Conference however is also pretty sparse on information thus making it more difficult to have a flushed out article.

Overall Impression

I think that it is a good start to an article, but I think that it was either simply forgotten about or the Conference is no longer happening - which would be an important thing to denote in the article. I would like to see more information on the article such as - the date of the first conference, or the dates of all the conferences for that matter. I would also like to have seen, who or what organization started the conference and for what reasons - more general background on the conference, where it takes place every year would also be note worthy. The goals talked about more would be helpful, along with projects they are currently working on and projects/ideas that have come out of the conference. I think it is extremely underdeveloped but has the potential to be flushed out more.