User:Macwilliams3/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gold mining

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because gold is one of the most sought after mineral resource in the world, and this course is aimed at resources of the Earth. It is also important to understand the process by which we can exhume these deposits. My preliminary impression was that the article was structured well and was very informative.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

There is a clear introductory sentence that describes the topic. No brief description of the major sections in the lead, could be something to change. The section does not contain any information that is not present in the article and is concise with a good amount of detail.

Content:

The content in the article is as relevant up-to-date as you can be with such an old practice. I was not able to find anything that didn’t belong, although there is much more that could be added on the safety section and on indigenous relations. This article does not address topics related to historically underrepresented populations.

Evaluating Tone:

The article is mostly neutral but seems to lean towards the side of pro-mining when many people don’t agree with the environmental factors that come with mining. The viewpoints of environmental activists are underrepresented. The links in the article work and the source supports the claims of the article. No bias and referenced properly. The sources mainly come from other Wikipedia articles.

Checking the talk page:

There is a conversation on the importance of the article and having proper information for it, it is rated C-Class on the project’s quality scale. It is rated C-class and is a part of WikiProject Mining. Wikipedia discusses this topic a bit more broadly than our specific facts.