User:MelCarruthers/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Environmental impact of iron ore mining
 * Article Evaluation:This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Despite being well organized and laid out in comprehensive sections, this article is missing some content and contains some irrelevant material, particularly in the sub-section Wetlands and Flora under the Issues section of mining iron ore. In addition, this article contains a few grammatical errors and awkward sentences. The article maintains a neutral point of view and is written in an unbiased tone but needs to review its sources. There are a couple of links that are inaccessible and a lot of the information has been drawn from the same government websites so it may be useful to have a bit more variety in terms of where the information is coming from. The Talk Page also notes that the article is very Canada-specific so it is recommended that the article is either edited to be more broad and adapt a worldwide scope or, the title is narrowed to more accurately reflect the contents of the article.
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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Tailings
 * Article Evaluation:This article is rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Despite having a substantial amount of meaningful content, there are some grammatical errors and inaccuracies. It also still requires some expansion to make it more complete. There have also been some comments in the Talk Page claiming that the article is a bit uneven and some parts seem to be very pro-mining. This would need to be fixed because Wikipedia articles are required to maintain a neutral and unbiased tone. This article has also used some sources from news outlets which is not ideal. This article could benefit from more reliable sources. Some links and DOI numbers are also not accessible.
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Option 3

 * Article title
 * Uranium tailings
 * Article Evaluation:This article is rated as Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. There is a basic description with a few subsequent sections but is missing a more comprehensive view on the topic. Additional material is needed to produce more meaningful content for readers. Most of the sources look reliable but some of them are a bit dated. It is suggested that some of the wording can be changed. In addition, the information from this article might have the potential to simply be merged with the main article about tailings.
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Option 4

 * Article title
 * Exploitation of natural resources
 * Article Evaluation:This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. The article has some meaningful content but is still incomplete. There is also a section that does not cite any sources. Therefore, this article should be edited and improved by adding citations to reliable sources.
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Option 5

 * Article title
 * Heavy mineral
 * Article Evaluation:This article is rated as Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. The article essentially just has a basic description of a heavy mineral and is missing further content on the topic. There is only one source in the reference list so this article can benefit from a larger variety of reliable sources. This article is rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale therefore it should be reviewed if there is enough material to produce a complete article on the topic that provides meaningful content to Wikipedia readers.
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