User:Pimientabolt/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Climate change and Indigenous peoples

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as I thought it was pertinent to course themes and also allowed for me to learn more about how indigenous peoples are affected by climate change. I think that this article matters as indigenous communities are not usually discussed in modern discourse regarding climate change and a more specific perspective on how indigenous people and climate change are linked could be useful when evaluating how minority groups are affected by climate change. The first impression I have of the article is that it includes a lot of information on the topic but still has missing information when discussing the continent of Africa and other geographic locations.

Evaluate the article
I thought that the lead was incredibly broad and vague. The ideas within the lead paragraph are very broad and do not succinctly discuss what will be discussed throughout the article.

I think that the article thoroughly discusses an underrepresented group however, it does not do a thorough job of discussing some of the regions it mentions. The one that stood out to me the most was the discussion of Africa, and Asia both of which lacked specificity and suffered from generalization. I think that despite the importance of mentioning all regions of the world I think that utilizing case studies perhaps specific to countries in the continent might prove more useful than broad generalization. Other than this I do think that the article is pretty up to day but could use some updating when discussing the indigenous people of North America.

I thought at times the tone was not neutral enough. There were instances of using grandiose language which took away from the main points discussed by the article. I think that simplifying the vocabulary especially in the introduction would really help with this tonal issue.

I discussed previously that there were some sections that would benefit from including new sources, more specifically the section about the north American indigenous people. Although there might not be direct sources that link indigenous people and climate change in recent years there has

The photos and images provided help to emphasize the points made throughout the article. However, I do think that in the lead paragraph the image should be changed to something a bit more relevant to the topic. This could be an image more related to indigenous involvement in climate change as opposed to an image of nature. I additionally think it could be helpful to include more images of the regions where they are described. This would make the information from the article more clear.

This article seems to be really popular as it is in many Wikiprojects which involve anything from indigenous communities to climate change in general. I think that this has allowed for many changes to be made, some of which I have mentioned in this review.

I think that the status of the article makes sense. I think that although the article could be improved it is a good article. It is a thorough article using the articles available at the time. I think overall with some added information to the sections of the Asia and Africa region sections would be helpful and updating the US section would make this article great.