User:Kldolam01/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Spill containment

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because it has to deal with oil/petroleum and the aftermath of extracting them. The topic in this article matters because it addresses how oil spills are contained and what the process is to try to clean up after extraction or if there is an accident. It also talks about different types of spill containment such as the technology used for it as well as rules and regulations for spillage. My overall thoughts on the article was that it was easy to navigate and read and resourceful on the information provided.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section: The lead section and introductory sentence explained exactly what the topic of the article was about. It provided information on what the article will be talking about and did not show any extra information that was not present in the article itself. The lead section also provided statistical background information on oil spillage through out the years which ties into the contents of the article.

Content: The article's content was relevant to the topic and up to date. The contents table was easy to read and navigate. Each portion of the article did not have any unnecessary information that did not tie back into the topic. There was no missing content, all of them were present in the article.

Tone and Balance: The article did not provide any biases or claims towards a particular position. Since the article is talking about oil spill containments, it provides good resources for why spill containment is important and how it's regulated by the law as well as how can the technology be improved for doing so. For what the topic is, I consider the viewpoints to be represented fairly with no infringements/persuasion on the topic.

Source and References: I consider the sources to be well used and up to date. Most of them are mainly organizations who handle dealing with oil spills and containment so it shows that the sources have credibility since they are organizations who have knowledge on the technologies used and plans for oil spills. There are also sources from scholarly papers that are very thorough on the process of oil spill containment as well as research on the cost for the service. There is also sources on institutions who are known for studying oil/petroleum. I do consider there to be a good diversity of different types of sources. All of the source links are working and takes you directly to the site or paper used for the information.

Organization and Writing Quality: I consider this wiki article to be very easy to navigate and read. All of the contents are free of grammar and not overly hard to understand, it is accessible to anyone who can read. Each part of the article is broken down well with each topic of the contents listed above the page.

Image and Media: There is one image used in the article, which shows one of the oil spills technology, containment booms. The image is well captioned and explain what is happening in the picture with a few words. I consider the image to be laid out appropriately, being located next to the technology topic of the article. The image provides a very good visual for the topic and I believe enhances it.

Talk Page: There was little discussion on this article, but the ones that were there talked about removing certain source links that led to pages for commercial use of oil spills. The other part of the discussion was just about removing words or changing grammar. There was another comment made in 2015 from a person wanting to take on editing this article for an environmental economics class. The way WIKI discusses this topic from how we discuss as a class is more of a business aspect, there is a lot more mentions about how much cleaning up costs, and what technologies are being created to combat these issues with the oil companies and spilling.

Overall Impressions: I consider the status of this article to be well made and completed. I consider the article to be well developed with the information it provided. The article's strength is organization and reading/ grammar comprehension Some things that could be improved upon is how much information is given from this article, there could be more topics added to it since it's a very short one.