User:Mbastola/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Effects of climate change on South Asia
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate? Climate Change is the major issue in the world. South Asia is ver populated region and the change of climate has affected life of many people including the daily activities. As this article is highly important in some Wiki Project but still in C-class, I have chosen this article.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes, it talks about the resulting effects of climate change in South Asia.
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? The lead covers the brief ideas of the major section but does not includes all the sections.
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? Yes, there are some information in the lead section which are not in the article.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? The lead is slightly over-detailed with external stuffs. For the included ideas, it seems concise but does not includes all the section's brief description.

Content

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 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the content is well-related to the topic.
 * Is the content up-to-date? The content is not updated from 2019.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? The title is about the effect of the climate change. So, the potential solutions and awareness section may not belong to the article. But having those topics in the content is also not a bad idea. The social content is also very less and many information are missing.
 * Does the article deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps? Does it address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics? It does talks about poor people but not the other underrepresented populations or topics.

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral? The article lacks citation in many of the key sentences. This makes the article to look bias or opinionated.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? There are no such major claims. minor claims needs to be studied further to confirm.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? The article is more focused to India. Although India is the biggest country is South Asia, the article should also mention the effect on other country because of the climate change. There are very few instances where the article talks about Pakistan and Bangladesh, but the other countries in the region are left out and are not even mentioned.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? We all have similar thoughts to the climate change. So, it does not seems like the article attempts to persuade. It is more like a common voice with scenarios and facts.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Some of the fact lack the source of information.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? Some of the sources are thorough where are as some are just the facts.
 * Are the sources current? Some of the sources are newspaper articles and blog posts from websites.
 * Are the sources written by a diverse spectrum of authors? Do they include historically marginalized individuals where possible? Most of the authors of the sources are from South Asia. There are very few authors from the other side of the globe.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Some of the links are not working anymore.

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? The article is easy to read but is not clear is some of the sections.
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? There are few grammatical errors in the writing.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? The article can be broken down into other topics as well. However, it has been limited to very common topics.

Images and Media

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 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? There is only 1 image and its depicts the scenarios it talks about.
 * Are images well-captioned? The image is well-captioned.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? Yes, it is from the Wikimedia Common and is a public image.
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? No.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? About the independent existence and importance of this article,
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is part of 6 Wiki Projects and is rated as High-Importance in two of them while mid-importance in other two.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? People tend to persuade other users on why they are correct and what they used to support the idea.

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status? It is satisfactory for the first time viewer and okay for the people with very minimum knowledge on the topic.
 * What are the article's strengths? The strength is the content related with Environment and how it is related to lives of people. This allows the readers to visualize the situation better.
 * How can the article be improved? Including more effects from other countries as well. Also, providing more relation with the daily activities of the people.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? The article is under-developed. The frameworks are strong but require a greater input from the authors for making it well-developed.

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