User:Necronater1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ecocentrism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose Ecocentrism because many environmental plans are based upon anthropocentric viewpoints. This can lead to some environmental plans not helping the ecosystems or species they set put to help. The article on ecoentrism seems well written but I wanted to see if I could spot anything that could be better.

Evaluate the article
The Lead Section heavily relies on other terms and the language can be overly complex. This could be indicative of it paraphrasing its sources. It has a content index, but the lead section could better cover what the article will include.

The quotes are descriptive and offer insight but are too long to be on a wiki article. The content is good at giving an overview of what ecocentrism is, and the inclusion of its relationship with other philosophies helps the reader understand how it is different. However, more content could be given into the main sections. This could be extracted from the two long quotes.

The article is written in a neutral manner, even though the subject is ethical in nature. The sources are a mix of recent and older credible sources. This helps the article's credibility. In terms of images, there aren't really any to support the article. The amount of links to related topics and philosophies gives the reader many avenues to further explore the topic of ecocentrism.

The talk page shows how much information has been added or subtracted over the years. The conversations primarily focus on the removal or addition of sources/citations. Since ecocentrism can be a broad topic, it makes sense that the discourse would be on what should be included. There is also some talk on what classifies as ethical philosophy versus scientific truth. This is minor but it is still good to think about for the article.

Overall, this article is fairly well developed. It could use some minor changes to better portray information on the article itself instead of having so many links to other articles. To better help this article I would shorten the quotes from Stan Rowe (1994) and put the in-depth explanation of ecocentrism into your own words, and possible use another short quote from another source.