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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
 * Arable land


 * Article Evaluation
 * The Talk page for this article is a little cluttered. Generally, users are sticking to the etiquette of using indentations to format the Talk page in the standard "forum style", however there are sections such as the 'cleanup tags' subheading where it is unclear as to whether the three non-indented comments are all individual comments under this subheading, or whether the second two are meant to be responses to the first initial comment under the header. The subheadings within the talk page could also be more specific, as there are several which do not give any information on what is being discussed (e.g. "Untitled" and "A QUESTION". Similarly, the language used in some of the subsections (namely "bias dump") is unprofessional and nonspecific in terms of the requests for changes, however this is generally in the oldest sections of the page, circa 2006-2010, with the more recent comments and additions being more precise and structured.


 * Sources
 * Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations dataset of global land use https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL
 * Xiao Zhang and Ximing Cai, 2011, Climate change impacts on global agricultural land availability, Environ. Res. Lett. 6, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014014/meta

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Mining in the United Kingdom


 * Article Evaluation
 * WikiProject Mining & WikiProject United Kingdom: Quality Scale: Start-Class, Importance Scale: Mid
 * The article is poorly cited: several sections have no source listed - the Industrial minerals section in particular is fairly sparce in terms of citations, despite stating many statistics which are presently unverifiable.
 * Phrasing within the article could be improved, several sections are awkward or casually worded and could be reworked to improve flow and readability. Some sections of the article include phrasing which could be misleading - e.g. "The Romans introduced iron tools" implies that iron was not used within the UK prior to Roman invasion in 43AD, when iron tools have been found dating to 600-800BCE within the UK.
 * Sources
 * https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/mines/industrial.html
 * British Geological Survey (BGS) Industrial minerals resources map https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/9c126944-bed1-4f8a-838e-1f33728088b3/industrial-minerals-resources-map-of-britain
 * Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extractive-industries-transparency-initiative-payments-report-2018/extractive-industries-in-the-uk
 * Extractive Industries in the UK https://www.ukeiti.org/sector-introduction
 * Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extractive-industries-transparency-initiative-payments-report-2018/extractive-industries-in-the-uk
 * Extractive Industries in the UK https://www.ukeiti.org/sector-introduction

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Killas


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is extremely short with very little information available, as such there are only two citations. More information should be added to expand on the history of resource extraction from the killas, such as dates for the periods of extraction and production and uses of the extracted materials. The Economic uses section could also be organised into subsections, for example: subsections for each of the different resources extracted.
 * This article is also separate from the article Cornish Killas, however these articles should probably be merged and redirect to the same page.


 * Sources
 * British Geological Survey (BGS) Industrial minerals resources map https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/9c126944-bed1-4f8a-838e-1f33728088b3/industrial-minerals-resources-map-of-britain
 * Historic England, 2009, Cornish Killas: National Character Area 152,https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/8175/CornishKillasUplandandUplandFringe

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Biofuel


 * Article Evaluation
 * Wikipedia Version 1.0 Editorial Team, WikiProject Environment: Rated C-class, Low-importance
 * WikiProject Energy, WikiProject Climate change: Rated C-class, High-importance
 * The article is well divided with subheadings in order to address the many different sub-categories of biofuels, however the size of these subsections are not particularly even, meaning there could be some expansion needed on some of these.
 * The image of biodiesel could be moved down to go alongside its respective subcategory, in order for the Renewable Energy inset to take priority at the top of the page.
 * Some sections of the article could be refined to use more professional or specific language (e.g. in Biogas and biomethane, where landfill gas is referred to as "less clean")
 * The article is thoroughly referenced throughout, with a wide variety of sources from different organisations and publications.
 * Sources
 * A. Demirbas, Biofuels sources, biofuel policy, biofuel economy and global biofuel projections, 2008, Energy Conversion and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2008.02.020
 * R.E.H. Sims, W. Mabee, J. N. Saddler, M. Taylor, An overview of second generation biofuel technologies, 2009, Bioresource Technology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.11.046
 * A. Demirbas, Biofuels sources, biofuel policy, biofuel economy and global biofuel projections, 2008, Energy Conversion and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2008.02.020
 * R.E.H. Sims, W. Mabee, J. N. Saddler, M. Taylor, An overview of second generation biofuel technologies, 2009, Bioresource Technology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.11.046

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Aquatic biomonitoring


 * Article Evaluation
 * WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography: Quality : Start Class, Importance Scale: Mid
 * WikiProject Ecology: Quality: Stub, Importance: N/A
 * The article is fairly short, with one subsections only having a single line of description. The information presented could be expanded upon to give more precise definitions of monitoring techniques and their applications. The article also mainly focuses on North America and Europe, with little information on other continents and whether techniques differ.
 * The citations within the article are inconsistent, with several sections having no citations at all (e.g. "Community make-up") These need to be rectified through verification of the information followed by either correction and/or addition of appropriate sources.
 * There have only been 3 comments on the Talk page for this article, not including notifications that it has been added to academic groups as a part of a Wiki Education assignment and an informative comment from the InternetArchiveBot.
 * Sources
 * Zelealem Haftu, Samuel Estifanos, 2020, Investigation of physico-chemical characteristics and heavy metals concentration implying to the effect of local geology on surface water quality of Werii catchment, International Journal of Environmental Quality, Tigray, Ethiopia, https://eqa.unibo.it/article/view/10602
 * C. Klohmann and J.L. Padilla-Gamiño, 2022, Pathogen Filtration: An Untapped Ecosystem Service, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.921451 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.921451/full
 * Zelealem Haftu, Samuel Estifanos, 2020, Investigation of physico-chemical characteristics and heavy metals concentration implying to the effect of local geology on surface water quality of Werii catchment, International Journal of Environmental Quality, Tigray, Ethiopia, https://eqa.unibo.it/article/view/10602
 * C. Klohmann and J.L. Padilla-Gamiño, 2022, Pathogen Filtration: An Untapped Ecosystem Service, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.921451 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.921451/full