User:Lupineflower/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
No-till farming

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is a topic that really interests me and I would love to learn more about it. It matters because many of our agricultural practices are diminishing the quality of our soil and alternative agricultural methods, such as this, may help us in our future. Right off the bat i can see that there is a note at the top of the page that indicates that it needs some work, and so far it looks pretty sparse on information.

Evaluate the article
The introductory sentence does a good job of summarizing the overall topic, although throughout the leading section, it seems like there is mention of some content that is not further explained in the article. Also not much is said about some of the content that is in the rest of the article. I think that the content of the article is good, although it could be expanded upon, such as in the section where it covers implementation in different countries, there could be more information given about the success or the failures in those countries. Some other information that might be helpful in those sections could be: the climate and environment in those counties, the soil conditions, soil types, crops grown. I think all that information is needed to understand why no-till farming might work in some places but not others.

Throughout this article I can tell that there might be some controversy on some of the information given the tone that it was written in. It is almost written in a tone that is hesitant not to upset some people. The citations for this article look like they are reliable although there are some parts of the article that seem like they need some citations to fill in for some claims. This article is rated a C. there is lots of talk about organization as well as tone or point of view because to some it seems like most of the content is in promotion of no-till farming and might come off as persuasive rather than informative.