User:Gingerbmichigan/Choose an Article

Article Selection
[Overall Article I would like to work on]

After discussion I have decided to add a section on Thailand. Within the subject of Thailand I would like to either focus on recovery/resilience and policy being created to protect corals in Thailand.


 * Article Title: Southeast Asian coral reefs
 * Overall Article Evaluation:
 * The lead section could be improved in a variety of ways. The intro sentence should be changed to describe "what" coral reefs are rather than jumping straight into why they are important.
 * The intro paragraph is written in repetitive and not particularly descriptive vocabulary. The lead section could be made much more concise while still delivering the same content. Overall the lead section has good, if a little imbalanced, content. Most of the content in this article is helpful, relevant, and up to date. However, there is also much room for improvement.
 * Descriptions of the coral reefs specific to the Philippines and Indonesia are provided while omitting the coral reefs found in other nations such as Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam.
 * I also don't see trolling mentioned, how coral reefs protect coastlines from some storm events, or discussion of the other animals that rely on corals.
 * In addition, some sentences are written with a bias undertone such as "The task of saving the coral reef in Southeast Asia must occur within the communities which depend upon them. The problem, of a community's abuse and overuse of a natural resource, as created through desperation, poverty and a lack of oversight, cannot be handled by a foreign, external organization or a well-intended NGO"
 * The article contains good quality information that is pretty well organized, but it could be written in a more descriptive and concise way. I also think a map of the range of corals in southeast Asia would be very helpful to users. The page is very text heavy in general and could use more descriptive images. The Talk page discusses some of the issues I already mentioned such as the lack of sections for specific country's coral reefs. Someone also mentioned that some of the information about coral reefs was too specific for this page on southeast Asian coral reefs and should thus be moved to the general coral page. I had not thought of this but I agree.  Overall I think this page is pretty good quality but it has room for improvement in a number of areas. Gingerbmichigan

Specific Section 1

 * Article title
 * Southeast Asian coral reefs
 * Article Evaluation
 * I would like to add a section about coral reefs in Thailand specifically and problems that face corals in specifically this region. My reasoning for adding this section is to make the website more balanced as it has a Philippines and Indonesia section but ignores other countries in Southeast Asia.


 * Sources
 * Potential release of PCBs from plastic scientific gear to fringing coral reef sediments in the Gulf of Thailand (Article in Journal about runoff containing PCBs and other contaminates effecting corals in the Gulf of Thailand)
 * Impacts of the 1998 and 2010 mass coral bleaching events on the Western Gulf of Thailand (Article in Journal about specific bleaching events on Gulf of Thailand while proposing what these events can tell us about the future of corals in this area)

Specific Section 2

 * Article title
 * Southeast Asian coral reefs
 * Article Evaluation
 * I would also like to add a section about coral reefs in Vietnam specifically and their unique anthropogenic challenges. Again, my reasoning for adding this section is to make the website more balanced as it has a Philippines and Indonesia section but ignores other countries in Southeast Asia.


 * Sources
 * Coral degradation and ability of rehabilitation of coral reefs in Co To Archipelago, Quang Ninh province, Vietnam (Journal Article on the enormous reduction of corals in the Quang Ninh providence of Vietnam and lack of recovery)
 * Causes and consequences of spatial links between sea cage aquaculture and coral reefs in Vietnam (Journal Article on the proximity of "sea cage aquaculture" to coral reefs and the negative effects this has on corals in Vietnam and Thailand)

Specific Section 3

 * Article title
 * Southeast Asian coral reefs
 * Article Evaluation
 * Section about coral reefs in Malaysia since it is currently absent.


 * Sources
 * Coral reefs studies and threats in Malaysia: a mini review ( A journal overview on corals in Malaysia, a study on findings of heavy metals in corals and the effects of sedimentation, tourism, and other human activity on corals on Malaysian coast)