User:PonderosaPine0/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1:

 * Article title: Life Cairn
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is concise does a decent job of defining what a life cairn is. The article does include relevant examples of what a life cairn is, however, the examples are limited to England and don't express the magnitude of the amount of life cairns there are. There is also information missing on future potential life cairn sites/organisms. The only examples are from England but there are other life cairns around the world, which I want to focus on. The information is biased in no way except for geographic bias as it only includes examples of life cairns from England. The sources are relevant and up to date, but there are few sources and only one source that is peer reviewed. The article is as well written as possible considering the length, but it lacks images (which I think could especially enhance the article). The talk page is largely inactive and the article hasn't been updated from 2017. This page is very much in the infancy of it's potential. The introduction is very concise and accurate, but the body is lacking and has potential to be full of examples of life cairns. While there are examples of life cairns, there isn't any recognition in literature which makes adding sources difficult. There are plenty of articles on life cairns however.
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 * https://medium.com/dark-mountain/the-life-cairn-1483610d05ab
 * https://medium.com/dark-mountain/the-life-cairn-1483610d05ab

Option 2

 * Article title: Environmental Gradient
 * Article Evaluation
 * I think this article's intro isn't the best concise definition of an environmental gradient. The "through space and time" part of the intro needs to be revised. I think there's a better way to go about defining "environmental gradient". This article is not biased in any way, and it presents information equally insofar as it can. This article offers very limited sources (1) and I think it needs to have many more. There are plenty of papers that either strictly study environmental gradients or at least mention them. I have read recently in my other classes literature that involves environmental gradients so I'd love to include them. I want to especially include information about local adaptation across environmental gradients. The included reference is relevant and works so at least there's that. Aside from the introduction, the author does a phenomenal job elaborating on the topic and relating it to other topics (ecotone, species abundance, etc.). I think there's plenty more to write about but the author did a good job starting. There are no images, which I think could be especially helpful for something that is included as figures in papers. There is some action on the talk page, but not a lot. This paper was last updated in September of 2020 and no update has been made to the talk page sense. Overall this article is off to a good start. The author provides a good platform to build off of for examples of environmental gradients, but the introduction needs refining and any new examples/body needs to be supported by additional sources.
 * I think this article's intro isn't the best concise definition of an environmental gradient. The "through space and time" part of the intro needs to be revised. I think there's a better way to go about defining "environmental gradient". This article is not biased in any way, and it presents information equally insofar as it can. This article offers very limited sources (1) and I think it needs to have many more. There are plenty of papers that either strictly study environmental gradients or at least mention them. I have read recently in my other classes literature that involves environmental gradients so I'd love to include them. I want to especially include information about local adaptation across environmental gradients. The included reference is relevant and works so at least there's that. Aside from the introduction, the author does a phenomenal job elaborating on the topic and relating it to other topics (ecotone, species abundance, etc.). I think there's plenty more to write about but the author did a good job starting. There are no images, which I think could be especially helpful for something that is included as figures in papers. There is some action on the talk page, but not a lot. This paper was last updated in September of 2020 and no update has been made to the talk page sense. Overall this article is off to a good start. The author provides a good platform to build off of for examples of environmental gradients, but the introduction needs refining and any new examples/body needs to be supported by additional sources.


 * Sources
 * https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1937461?casa_token=Kgu1Yp_rt08AAAAA%3A4jS0w7H0MnZAIgTCdhVABMzdxo2YqJrTNQU3p4QxmMZdODc8jQ1_nf3kVnK1MEM9aYyPzXmIljTsqw
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/3236055?casa_token=EFB_7CETyQIAAAAA:iAlNRgLNfR1Bfy3CrGKCAWa_dhsDe4Jb5S8xAi1r6PqX_t4DJzhpRrx5hcalNlsy5nWUOk4V9HoPiA

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