User:MitchKrings/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Carbon Cycle

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The carbon cycle is a very important biogeochemical process as it regulates the carbon found in the environment amongst the atmosphere, soil, ocean, etc. Seeing as this process is vital to understand global trends, it seemed reasonable to examine this one first. My initial impressions of the article were that it had a lot of information that covered a wide variety of topics from the basics of how the system functions to specific sub-cycles of the system, such as the rock cycle. I also like the use of figures and the organization of it in general.

Evaluate the article
MitchKrings (talk) 05:31, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Mitchell Krings
 * Content - I thought the content of the page seemed rather solid. The concepts were well explained and what was included in the sections appeared to be on point. Some articles had older dates, such as one found in 2002, however, given that the article was talking about something that is rather constant, the out of date aspect of it shouldn't matter too much.
 * Tone - I would say the tone is fairly neutral, even in some sections that would normally bring about more passionate discussion such as climate change. The author(s) wrote in a matter-of-fact way that I think conveys the information it needs to without trying to persuade the reader one way or the other.
 * Sources - Based on the links that I clicked, I think the sources are pretty accurate. A few of them were pretty easy to fact check and at the very least, they all brough me to where I was supposed to go. However, it is difficult to state with absolute certainty if the information provided in the sources matched up with what was said in the Wikipedia page. This could be due to some of my limited understanding of the concepts, so I can't definitively state if this is the case or not.
 * Talk Page - The talk page seemed to be very active (namely last year). A lot of information was either removed or edited to try and make the page more concise. It is rated a level-5 vital page and is involved in many WikiProjects (such as Chemistry, Ecology, Plants, etc.). The big think I'm noticing on Wikipedia is that the edits are all designed to focus solely on the main aspects of the carbon cycle and to remove things that are only tangentially related. I think we've touched upon this in class, however, it appears that it may be to a great extent that I had previously thought.