User:FolkRiley15/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Environmental science

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.)

I was interested to learn something about Environmental science while also completing this assignment. Kind of like a two birds one stone situation. Environmental science is extremely important to today because of the arising problem with global warming. It's also important to understand the environment that we live in if we want to protect it. To be frank, I knew little to nothing about Environmental science, so naturally, I thought it was just the study of the environment and nature as a whole.

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.)

To start of the lead section of the Environmental science page is exactly what one would look for in a lead section. The first sentence gives a definition for what Environmental science is with a parenthesis enclosed group of studies that fall under its umbrella. The following few paragraphs lays out what environmental science covers including pollution control, natural resource management, and the effects of global warming and climate change. It also gives events that relate to the study without going into too much detail of what those events were. One of the things I found most satisfying with this article is no sections is much larger than the others. All of them get the same amount of detailed analysis and explanation. The article goes into detail about the basics of Environmental Science while simply linking the other topics to other Wikipedia pages. With global warming somehow being a political argument point the article sticks to giving the facts rather than trying to persuade the audience that these things are "real". There's no bias behind the explaining of these key points in Environmental Science. The article is concise and exact with the words they use and the grammar they include. I didn't notice any grammatical errors and the sentence flow was extremely fluid. The article also gives a good quantity of pictures that include descriptions that make sense in context to where they are placed. The picture in the Geosciences section actually includes a slide bar that allows you to see the entire landscape. Extremely cool if I must say. The talk page actually is very argumentative. I'll quote one of the entries stating "This is a Wiki entry that disappoints me. It seems there may have been too many chiefs trying to run the show". It sounds like previously the article was too political which caused many different editors to have their take at it which resulted in many people revising, deleting, and reverting people's work. Overall I thought the article is actually in a good place. It's well written and flows smoothly and sticks to the point of the study of Environmental Science rather than the political side that can stem off the topic.