User:MacGuire Roughley/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Tight gas - Wikipedia

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.)

Fracking, a method of resource extraction used heavily in Canada, is used to obtain tight gas. Important due to its relevance in modern extraction. Fracking has a very large Wikipedia, so I thought starting with a smaller similar one would be a good introduction to editing Wikipedia.

Initial impression is that the article is quite short and has few sources. I think the format could use some help too, one large photo is breaking up the text in a weird manner.

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.)

Everything seems relevant and there are not any distracting sections. Likely due to how short the article is. The article could expand on how tight gas is considered unconventional due to its lowered permeability. There is no direct link to the two, they both come across as separate facts. A connection may help readers gain a better understanding.

The article maintains neutral tone, which is easy as this is just a resource. Fracking itself would be harder as it is a necessary extraction method but comes with environmental consequences. Staying away from this conversation and leaving that for the fracking page itself is beneficial for the articles tone.

The sources are a little old being mainly older than 2012 for the scientific articles. I found a few newer articles from 2016 and newer that could be considered to update some information.

The Talk section does not have any entries. It is part of two projects, "Wiki Project Energy" (low importance) and "Wiki Project Geology" (low importance).