User:Thomas Leonard96/sandbox

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Article Evaluation - Welding
The article has a strong leading section that hits on everything that is to come later in the article. It is also neatly categorized by various headers. The actual content of the article is also well typed with no grammar or spelling errors. The article is also written in an order that makes sense with nothing jumping in out of nowhere. Each subsection of the article has a large amount of useful information. The article also makes use of many different reliable sources and cites them where needed. All sources appear to still work. Checking the talk page it seems the article has won a wiki award and is in scope of the metalworking wiki-project and is regarded as a well written article. Additionally it looks like they are still trying to get more images to use in the article. Overall this is a very strong article related to a technology that was crucial on our path forward.

Assignment 5
After reviewing the defensive driving Wikipedia article I have spotted some areas that I think deserve some expanding or revising. I would like to start by saying I am not sure at this moment exactly what to do with the lead section. I think it is pretty well written and touches on just about all the topics but at the same time think it could possibly use a minor rewrite. The quote at the end seem a bit out of place to me. The general principles section is also a grey area for me that I don’t have any solid ideas on. While I certainly feel this article should cover what exactly the general principles of defensive driving are, this does not feel like the best way to do so but I don’t have any better ideas. The history section is very short consisting of only two sentences. It seems very unfair for a topic so closely related to such an important part of the modern world have such a small history section. With whole cities literally being designed around the roads in which vehicles ride on and with how deadly vehicles can actually be, this article deserves be expanded on. To improve on the history section I believe adding additional information such as when more states had defensive driving courses available as well as when and how the courses transitioned on to the internet would be a big improvement. I am also looking for information on when courts started issuing mandated course completion as this is a common reason people complete defensive driving courses. I have some of the mentioned information already but finding reliable sources for this has proven to be a bit difficult. This would take the history section from the inception of the concept up until the modern day while adding some important information on how it developed overtime. The training and courses section, while much more informative, could still use some additional information as well as some citations. The amount of time required and exactly how the courses are taken could also be added to this section. While talking about this section I also would consider moving the mentions of reduced auto insurance and dismissal of tickets to the benefits section, which I will now discuss. The “benefits of roadcraft” section can be transformed into a benefits of defensive driving or benefits of secondary driver education section. In doing so the section would require a rewrite for it to make more sense in the context of the heading using the provided citation to back up the claims. My thought process behind this is to be able to provide any information regarding the actual effectiveness that defensive driving has as I feel that is lacking in the current version of the article. This is important information that I believe people should be able to see when coming to this article. With so many people dying from car accidents annually, any information that could help reduce the problem should be mentioned. As I have researched into the effectiveness of defensive driving courses I have found that there are a few promising studies. At the moment I have found two studies that show drivers who have taken any kind of secondary driver education such as a defensive driving course are less likely to be involved in accidents or traffic violations. I am still currently looking for more studies, possibly from different countries to give the article more global representation. I am looking forward to improving this article; let me know how my plans sound!

Peer Review Completed
Thomas peer-reviewed Goda's organic food article.

Assignment 7 Completed
After reading the peer reviews I received I decided to create a general principles section, expand on exactly how courses are taught and taken, as well as reorganize some information I felt to be a bit out of place. I felt most of the suggestions I received were helpful as they let me see what others thought could be improved within the article. Most of the suggestions were things I planned to change but I also saw some ideas that were the opposite of what I wanted to do, such as keeping some information in a list while I was thinking of expanding it into its own paragraph. I also had some agreement on specific things I stated I wanted to change in the talk page which makes me believe they were likely good ideas and I should probably go through with them. Additional statistics were also suggested which I also think is a good idea but it is getting difficult to find more and more studies as I don't always have access to the full text of what otherwise looks like a great insight into the topic. Overall I think the peer reviews I received will help me better the article for its eventual push to the live Wikipedia page.