User:NatalieMoun/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because it is about an important Supreme Court case/ruling that is related to our class' topic of environmental history. My initial impression of this article is that it is well done.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section is straightforward and gives readers the basic facts of what the topic is about, which is helpful, but the language is a little hard to understand.

The content of the article is also good. It gives details on all parties involved with this case and presents all arguments with a neutral tone. The timeline of events is also well organized and easy to follow. Links to other wiki articles can be found throughout which is especially helpful for readers that may not be familiar with some legal terms. One issue that this article has however, is a link to a Supreme Court case that does not have a wiki article so it is not helpful for those looking to learn more about that case.

It may be interesting or useful to add a section that would discuss more recent cases which have cited the ruling of Mass. v. EPA if there is a substantial amount of them.

The article does not make use of any images, although this may not be a necessary addition.

The article's sources are all reliable with a majority being official government documents or articles released by relevant government agencies. Links to sources also seem to be working.

On the articles talk page, one of the conversations between editors is how to make the language in the lead section more approachable and easy to understand, allowing readers to quickly learn what the case was and what the ruling was, and where it stands today. The article is part of several WikiProjects such as Wikiproject Environment, Climate change, and U.S. Supreme Court cases to name a few.

This article is good but could be improved by making some of the language used more approachable, but it is a very informative and well organized article and with the help provided by links to other wiki articles readers can learn a lot.