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Everything in the article is relevant to the article topic, with nothing being a distraction to me. The page was last updated on January 9th, 2021, so the information does not seem to be out of date. All of the information appears to be there, from the diameters of the ice, to its thickness, to how the pancake ice is formed, to the rims of the ice. Additional information that might need to be included is what oceans or latitudes pancake ice forms in. There also seems to be more information from the sources that could be added to the page to further the page's information. Furthermore, it may be beneficial to include in parenthesis the definition of frazil ice, what pancake ice rims are made of, for the purpose of clarification and including more information. Although it is important to note that the article does link frazil ice to its Wikipedia article. The scientific information is presented in a clear, accurate, and efficient (without jargon) manner. The article does link to other Wikipedia articles for related topics, including: sea ice, frazil ice, slush, shuga, grease ice, ice rind, nilas, and gray ice. In terms of tone, the tone is completely neutral and unbiased, with no bias towards a particular position or viewpoints over or underrepresented. The Wikipedia article simply states the facts. The links work and the sources support the claims in the article with each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference. These sources are neutral and unbiased. After taking a look at how others are talking about this article on the talk page, it is evident that there is not any kind of conversation going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic. The only conservation is a bot which modified two external links on the article. The article has been rated stub-class on the WikiProject Geography's quality scale and low-importance on its importance scale. The article is also a part of the WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography project, where it also has been rated stub-class in quality and low-importance on its importance.

Introductory sentence: For my additions to the article I will be adding two new paragraphs, one on the correlation of wave activity and pancake ice formation, which information I have acquired from Thomas et al., "Overview of the Arctic Sea State and Boundary Layer Physics Program.", and the second paragraph will be on pancake ice cementation and the resilience of the ice based on writings from "Overview of the Arctic Sea State and Boundary Layer" by Vernon A. Squire.

Pancake Ice Article Draft (edited from Pancake ice)
Pancake ice is a form of sea ice that consists of round pieces of ice with diameters ranging from 30 centimetres (12 in) to 3 metres (9.8 ft) and thicknesses up to 10 centimetres (3.9 inches), depending on the local conditions. [summarize rest of article major points here]

Formation processes
Pancake ice may be formed in two ways: (1) on water covered to some degree in slush, shuga or grease ice, or (2) from breaking of ice rind, nilas or even gray ice in agitated conditions. Pancake ice features elevated rims formed by piling of frazil ice or slush up the edges of pancakes when they collide, due to random collisions and periodic compressions at wave troughs. These rims are the first indication of the onset of pancake ice formation from less consolidated forms of ice.

Pancake ice forms in conditions of high wave activity, in contrast to other types of sea ice formed under calm conditions. Significant wave height can also limit the lateral growth and welding of pancake ice because tensile stress from the wave field exerts a strong impact on pancake ice size. If the waves are strong enough, the pancakes can raft over each other, creating uneven top and bottom surfaces. At this point, the pancake ice will fuse together into an ice sheet, which will continue to grow during the winter season. This fusion process increases the resilience of the ice, resulting in characteristic length scales for pancake ice that are less than ocean wavelengths; this causes waves not to scatter when passing through pancake ice.

Arctic Ocean
A notable example of pancake ice occurs in the Arctic Ocean, where a new prevalence of pancake ice is occurring—particularly along the ice edge—as a direct result of increasing Arctic wave activity.