User:Nourcurrie/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill

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 an interesting oil-related topic. I think that it is extremely important to learn about oil spills, and I figured that it would be a good idea to evaluate an article which covers a topic that I find interesting.

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 of this article was well laid-out and informative. I think that it did a good job of presenting all of the central ideas of the article in an easy-to-digest format. It gives a brief yet strong overview of the topic of oil spills, and it goes over every subtopic that is covered in more detail later in the article (e.g. how spills happen, what kind of damage they cause, etc.). I also appreciate the use of pictures in the lead section, which make it feel complete.

The article overall presented many different important aspects of oil spills. It discussed their causes, environmental and economic effects, sources of spills, and much more. It was a very thorough look into all of the important details. I think that this article covered pretty much everything that it needed to, and in appropriate detail. The article has no missing information, and it elaborates on everything mentioned in the lead section. I feel that this article is also a good length, and doesn't spend too much or too little time on each section or topic.

The tone of this article was professional and well written. It seemed unbiased, and presented facts without attempting to push any kind of personal interpretation of them. There is zero attempt at reader persuasion in this article. It sighted sources for every claim and piece of information. On the topic of sources, this article has many of them. They're almost all up-to-date and seem reasonably reliable.

The lay out and organization of this article was practical and easy to follow. It provided a clear road map of the topics that it covers in its lead section, and it follows up on this road map just fine. This article starts by explaining what an oil spill is, and then discusses how they happen, what the causes are, how they affect many different things (such as wildlife, the environment, humans, the economy, etc.), and how they are cleaned up. The article is split into logical segments that cover specific subtopics.

Overall, I think that this article was very informative and well made. It featured a clear lead section, a thorough body section that covered the topic of oil spills in great detail, it was professionally written in an unbiased manner, and it used many good sources.