User:LSchen24/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Price of oil

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because the topic of oil prices is very interesting to me, this article also relates to my topic for our next assignment which is how electric vehicles are affecting oil prices and companies.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

The lead section is nice and concise with a simple three paragraph intro that does a good job out outlining what the price of oil is and what some basics about how it works. The main complaint I have is the first sentence includes a list of oil and gas companies which feels like information that could be saved for later in the article or even the intro but just not the first sentence.

Content:

Although I am just getting started in learning about Oil, I think this wikipedia page has lots of good, interesting, up to date, and fairly complete information. I believe some topics are missing especially one where they talk about the price of oil and how it is being effected by current laws and policy, although many of those laws are only being passed in the U.S. while wikipedia is looking towards a world view. Also many of the topics in the back end of the page had much fewer information, that may be a product of how the page is formatted but some sections like future projections and impact of rising oil price are very thin.

Tone and Balance:

I think that the information is down the middle in my viewpoint, many different articles and sources are used, ranging from many different political sources and many international sources as well. I also do see a lack of any topics referring to how oil prices may affect different classes, countries, and minorities.

Sources and References:

There are many useful sources, the ones I clicked on all worked. There are a lot of sources and they all seemed to be very legitimate. There are not many topics about marginalized issues so there are not too many links about those issues.

Organization and Writing Quality:

The article seems to be very easy written, good grammar, and clear topics and sections.

Images and Media:

There are 5 pictures but four of those are graphs. The images are used well with very clear captions. I don't really know wikipedias copyright policy all too well but it seems all the photos are used fairly.

Talk Page Discussion:

There seems to be no discussion or any external topic forums.

Overall Impressions:

I thought the Wikipedia page was very helpful full of very basic and some deeper information. The Article has lots of information and uses lots of great sources. The only issues I have is it misses some important sections and some of the topics need a little more information.