User:Jblight/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I typically enjoy learning about the environment and how it has adapted over time. I chose this article because I thought it would give more insight into the effects and reasons for climate change. I found paleoclimatology to be very interesting in reconstructing ancient climates to learn more about our own.

Evaluate the article
I found the article to be extremely beneficial in explaining the history of paleoclimatology and then also discussing the current applications of the scientific field. The brief synopsis of its inception and how the field came to give me a far better understanding of the study. The article then went on to show the real-world applications of their studies and work. The article goes on to explain the different aspects of paleoclimatology and how different types of study can be beneficial. The difference in ice, dendroclimatology, sedimentary content, and others helped to further my understanding on the scientific field. The article has a neutral tone and does a useful job of simply explaining the history and facts on the given subject. The article also provided several additional resources to check the claims they were making and to also provide more information regarding the claims they were making. The links all worked well and were easy in assisting me to the next page to reference more information. The sources seem to come from an array of different places and also reference many different time periods to ensure the efficacy of the information provided. There is also a great amount of data and graphs provided to back up the information provided. I believe that this is a useful Wikipedia article for a number of reasons. It provides a nice and neat timeline with more than enough references to provide additional information about the topic. The article also comes from a non-bias perspective and is simply presenting facts about the given subject.