User:Mango1219/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Environmental impact of war

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen to evaluate this article because it is the article that my partner and I will be editing this semester for the Wikipedia assignment. By evaluating the article, I can gain a better understanding of what the article currently has and what it is missing.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of the article does have a good introductory sentence that describes what the article will look at quite well. The lead section is also concise and quick to read. In my opinion, the lead section is lacking a summary of the major sections of the article as it mainly just lists out some of the numerous wars that will be discussed in the article and not the specific sections. However, it does include a lot of links to other relevant articles and does not include any information that is not covered in the remainder of the article.

The content of the article is good. All of the content included in the article is relevant to the topic and it is organized well. As many of the wars being discussed in the article happened in the past, the content presented is as up to date as would be expected. I think many of the sections in the article could be expanded upon more as many of them are quite brief, but overall the article is not missing any highly important or relevant content.

The tone and balance of the article is appropriate in my opinion. The article steers clear of biases and overall maintains a neutral tone throughout. There is not much if any discussion of any fringe viewpoints in the article thus these viewpoints are not identified as such. The article also does not seem to be pushing for one viewpoint over the other.

The sources and references for the article are good and are used appropriately. There does not appear to be any unsubstantiated claims. The references are as up to date as would be expected considering the content of the article. The references are also reliable as they are peer-reviewed sources.

Overall the article is organized well and the quality of the writing is good. The major sections are somewhat unbalanced in length but none of the sections are too short to not be worthy of being their own section. Additionally, the unbalanced nature of the article's major sections is probably due to the article still being worked on and thus certain sections are still being expanded on.

The article does include some images but there are not many. As of writing, there are only three images with all of them being at the beginning of the article. I think this article would benefit from more images being included in the article. The images that are included are relevant and do a good job of demonstrating what some of the environmental impacts of war can look like in the real world.

The talk page for the article is somewhat sparse. From what I can see, the only things on the talk page are the policies for editing the article and two notifications that the article is being used for a student project, one of which is the notification of my partner and I's selection of this article for our project.

The article is given the start-class rank, which means that it is still in the works and needs improvements. Overall, I believe the article is in a decent state considering it is still being worked on. I think the strengths of the article are its content and references with its weaknesses being its lack of images and the way that it is organized. While the organization is not bad, I do think it could be better and a little more streamlined with less jumping from topic to topic. I hope to expand on the environmental hazards section of the article as well as war and environmental law section as I believe these sections are both in need of more content and greater depth in their discussion. I also hope to find and add some images that will help demonstrate how the environmental impacts of war manifest in the real world.