User:Justin Crane1/Evaluate an Article

Sustainable development
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Lead


Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation
The lead while having a good explanation of what the topic is for people who may not know what sustainable development is. Though it does not describe the sections of the article very well. The intro mostly is providing a history and some definitions and basic knowledge about the topic but does not highlight what the key topic will be throughout the page. At certain parts i feel it was over detailed and they were explaining things in the intro that did not even need to be mentioned for example the history it was not needed to get into the exact details of the history in the intro.

Content

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 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Content evaluation
The content has a lot of history which is good because this is an issue from the start of times though many did not realize this back than because they did not know that certain things were limited and the effect the reactions they were doing had the planet and the resources. here. Though in the transportation they lack a big portion of what i feel is important to this topic. Electric cars equipment and everything that they have been doing in the last years to really cut back on emissions and waste of fossil fuels. I also feel the content was very focused on the history and the things that have already happened and they did not look into anything that is in development at the moment and what they have planned. Personally for development there is 2 important sides. What has been developed and what is being developed and i think they missed the 2nd side of it.

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
They are neutral for the most part when it comes to the history and the ways they are making our world more sustainable they don't really mention weather they think one side is better or the other when it comes to methods of sustaining but when they started talking about the politics and what is being done there was a clear underlying tone that they feel there is not enough being done all around. By doing this its a subtle way of trying to get you behind and supporting doing more to protect the environment.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
Their sources and references were all very reliable places they cited everything they used from other places and you can tell they did not just paraphrase because it is written in their style of language and the way they write and does not feel like there is randoms places were they just copied a sentence from another article. From the links that i have checked about 5 or 6 of them clicking randomly in the list of them they all seem to be in working order and all see to be reliable sources.

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
The organization of the article i feel was spot on some people might argue and say that they talked about business in multiple spots but this is because they broke it down in more major topics and i think that helps drive the point home and makes it easier for somoene that is looking for something like the actions being done can go right to that section and does not have to jump around the article to find different things being done by different people.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
Yes the images all adhere to the copy right regulations and are all placed along the same side so it does not feel you are reading in a zig zag and they are placed along side the text that is talking about them. Example when talking about how much is being done they gave an example of when not enough was being done half of the rain forest was gone and it was just a dirt hill left.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
The articles talk page was very well structured and was being actively used for everything that was being done with the article. I think this key communication was what made this article as great as it was because everyone was on the same page with getting the information and there wasn't people battling to add or remove things.It was interesting to see all the awards that the article was put up for and how they are apart of so many wiki projects really shows how they connected their topic to so many others furthering how much they know about it.

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
If i had to rate the article on a scale to 1-10 i would say the article is a solid 8 maybe 8.5 the article is written with very good language and you could tell whoever wrote this had a strong understanding of the topic and they had powerful sources to back it up. Where they lacked is some information that i feel is very relevant to the topic and they have not been updating the article to keep up with the time which in technology is a very important aspect because it is always changing and improving.

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