User:JonBaronIII/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Conservation in Costa Rica

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was pretty important to me, as it connected to my study abroad program in Costa Rica, where I learned about Costa Rica's different conservation efforts, ecotourism, and worked on maintaining mangrove habitat for sea turtles and other coastal wildlife. I generally wanted to work along the longs of general conservation efforts and this article fit that pretty well, especially with its personal touch.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of this article, though strong, needed to be enhanced. It was missing some more up-to-date- and accurate information and I just felt that it needed more. While it was concise and well written, the article was missing some more information to paint the larger picture of Costa Rica's conservation efforts, so with the intention of expanding the article's main section, I needed to do the same for the opening. For the most part, there was a good amount of information that was relevant to the topic of the article. The main problems I found, however, was that there was some information that was not connected to modern accounts and resources and there were some pieces of information that did not really stand well on its own, so it was important to ensure that more information was added to enhance that information. There was not an overly detailed history related to historically underrepresented groups and communities and the historical development section was short and didn't address many events in Costa Rica's development and history. This issue was really the most underrepresented within the article. Overall, however, the tone and composition of the article was non-biased and neutral and it didn't overrepresent different claims. If anything, it really was a well-written page, it just was lacking some additional comprehensive information and some of the points it had was a little outdated. For this reason, some of the articles, though strong and reputable, needed to be supported by more modern sources and information. An example of this was within the Carbon Neutral Goal segment, which discussed the goal set by Costa Rica for 2015. Additionally, some of the intel on energy use was not accurate to what it is today. Other than this, the recourses were reputable and the links worked. As stated before, despite the information not really being as relevant in some areas and lacking some additional information for a more comprehensive read, the article was written well and professionally. The structure of the article was good, it truly just needed more. Another area that just needed more was the images and diagrams. The article had a few nice images to support their sections, but it lacked more visual aids and diagrams. The images that were there abided by copyright and had solid captions. Shockingly, there was actually no real discussions in the talk page on how to expand this article. It seemed like no one had really edited or enhanced this article until we got on there. Overall, I would argue that this article is unfortunately weak. I say this, simply because of its importance and the lack of comprehensive work put into it. Surely it's not as broad of a topic, but it still remains important, judging how ahead Costa Rica is in the mission of the Conservation Movement. The article was overall incomplete and it needed more information and more up-to-date information to enhance it to a stronger article that encompassed Costa Rica's conservation history.