User:Leahgkim/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Geovisualization

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I thought this was an interesting article to that slightly pertains to our course because one goal of deep-sea technology is to map the sea floor. As we learn more about the sea floor and are able to successfully map it, GIS and geovisualization will allow us to better view and understand the deep-sea floor. With the ever-growing field of research in deep-sea biology, there is limitless potential to how geovisualization can impact the deep-sea biology field.

Evaluate the article
This articles begins with a strong lead section, which clearly defines what is discussed in the article and the benefits of geovisualization compared to other graphical representations. All of the sources used for the page seem to be from around 2005 or earlier, while the history section of the page concludes at 1995. There is also a section that touches upon related fields to geovisualization, which seems slightly out of place initially, but then ties back into geovisualization by talking about how it contributes to those other fields. The article is written from a very neutral standpoint and does not try to sway the reader in a particular way. The references used for the page were all trustworthy and were published articles or journals aside from one dead link. There were no images included in this page, which was something raised as a concern in the talk page. This article was rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale and is a part of two WikiProjects: Maps and Systems. I believe that this article is well written, however it is very short and concise. Perhaps this is due to a lack of information about the field, but I felt that there could have been more added to the history section of the page.