User:Ghostpants321/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Petroleum

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 have chosen to evaluate this article due to the importance of the theme in human history and how certain elements within the article created an imbalanced impression.

Evaluate the article
The article was quite well researched, easy to read, neutral and large subjects such as History and Industry were linked properly (History of the petroleum industry and Petroleum industry) to larger and more complete articles on such subjects. However, certain subjects were found a bit lacking.

-Images are plentiful with proper annotations, sources comes from diverse authors and the article itself is high importance in climate change, environment and energy.

- The Introduction displayed not all of information content found in the article. There is a certain imbalance of subjects found in the introduction. The introduction content was putting forwards more into its exploitation and its usage. Subjects such as the formation of petroleum, history and others were to be serverely lacking in the introduction. Other subjects found later in the article such as alternatives, environmental effects, and classifications were rushed and only covered by 2 to 3 sentences around the introduction.

-The History of Petroleum should be more define in its timeframe. The subject is cut into two parts, early and modern, it can be quite confusing for people that needs a proper timeframe. The earliest timeframe in early is 4300 years and for modern is 1847. Both time estimates in this subject can be better classify such in a more precise but still in a generall timeframe. Such as:

4300 years

2000 years

347 CE (AD) years

7th century

12th - 13th century

1415 - 1450

18th century

. ..

Also, as discused in Talk, (Talk:Petroleum), an added section for prehistoric timeframe would be most beneficial for the history subject.

-Almost all sources were well placed and used efficiently. All were linked to proper sources such as wikipedia But, certain sources needs to be updated and changed.

At the introduction, geological formations linked to a wikiedia aticle that explained geological formation properly but it had no mention of petroleum within the article.

Certain information can be updated. Due to how the world and the market is constantly changing, the petroleum prices and trade doesn't stay the same. It is understanble and should be updated for further research and completion.

At the subject trade, there is a lack of sources representing Nymex exchange and its exchange rates. New York Mercantile Exchange and even Chicago Mercantile Exchange should be added as additional sources and beneficiary aid for others.

-At subject environmental effect, 'others say that fossil fuels increased whaling'. Such line has a lack of source, this sentence goes against the saying of the content within the subject, 'petroleum-refined kerosene saved some species of great whales from extinction'. Probably adding a bit more information or just comprosing this part of the article to later add within another part more focused on animals. A section only for whales is not too imperative to feature an only section,

-Certain subjects can more researched, subjects such as use by country, alternatives and fiction are to be severe lacking in sources and other information. Providing more diverse information (example for use by country; ) and spreading into other domains (example for alternatives; Biofuel)

In the subject fiction, Petrofiction can be more defined with added sources or images of renown novels or work from such genre. Novels such as Oil on Water and Rabbit Is Rich.

Alternatives are severely lacking, due to the impact of climate change and the accelerate progress of technology many articles can be found to further add information within the subject. Such as; Biofuel, Aviation fuel, Ethanol and ...

It is a well-done article, however more adding in informations and a regornisation in certain subjects would be most appreciated.