User:Kolvera/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Human impact on marine life

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I am interested on understanding the various ways in which humans have affected marine life. It matters to me because this is a growing issue throughout the world and if nothing is understood or changed about it, then nothing will get better. My preliminary impression of it was thought it is pretty descriptive and provides different insights on topics that are nonconventional in public discussion on the issue at hand.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

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Complete your article evaluation below. Here are the key aspects to consider:

Lead section
The lead section is somewhat introductory, but does not really give a brief overview of all of the article's major sections. It gives a very brief introduction of the entire article, but it is too descriptive. There is evidence cited, but it does not relate to any of the other parts of the introduction and does not really need to be there.

Content
This content is most definitely up-to-date and remains relevant to the topic at all times. I would say that one thing that is missing is that some sections do not explain how humans have caused an impact on marine life. It explains an issue on marine life that is caused by something human made, but does not talk bout how humans cause the problem, or was is the direct link between humans, the issue, and its effect. It does not deal with one Wikipedia's equity gaps.

Tone and Balance
This article does a great job at keeping a neutral point of view. It is hard to do so, especially when it is an article conveying the facts about human impact on Marine life, which is a heavy topic. Besides that each section opens up with how human involvement/ activities have impacted marine life, and then just goes straight into the facts which is important. This article does not try to sway the reader in anyway, and presents facts as neutrally as possible.

Sources and References
All the facts in this article are backed up by a reliable secondary source of information. They do reflect the available literature on the topic, especially since sources on this topic are more recent. Some links do not work, or some actually do not exist. For example, citation 3 no longer exists.

Organization and writing quality
This article is well-written and presents the subject matter in a clear matter. There are no grammatical or spelling errors. The article is well-organized and does

Images and Media
The images in this article definitely enhance the understanding of the topic and provide great visuals. I think that images are well-captioned. The images actually are not laid out in a visually appealing way. They space out the different sub-articles and could make a reader lose their train of thought or understanding.

Talk page discussion
There are conversations on how to improve the article in terms of formatting and some incompleteness. There are not that much talk sections, which I think means that this article is well-written. This is a C-class article and part of two WikiProjects: Fishing articles and Microbiology articles. We have not really talked much on the different topics in this article, except for plastic pollution. I think that this provides a great overview on plastic pollution and its effects on marine life.

Overall impressions
The article's overall status is that it is very comprehensive and understanding on the ways in which humans impact Marine life. It provides lots of great and unknown facts about the ways in which humans affect marine life, which is it's strength. Some parts of this article do not describe how the different effects are produced by humans, which I think is very important since the subject matter seems to be a little complicated, especially for non-scientific driven people. I think that this article is definitely well developed, but could use some minor improvements. It does a really great job in the balance of its tone by not constantly blaming, or drawing on human faults, as the result of current issues in marine ecosystems.

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