User:Thought22Potato/Evaluate an Article

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Alban Hills

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article discusses the Alban Hills, hills with a number of calderas just south of Rome. The article gives a decent, albeit short, overview of the area and briefly describes its volcanic and geologic history.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of the C-Class Alban Hills article concisely summarizes the articles main points and provides a decent geologic background of why the area is important from a geological and vulcanological standpoint. Likewise, the remainder of the article provides a good-- albeit brief-- overview of the history f the area, tying in both the social/anthropological history of the area with the geologic and environmental aspects of the region. The content appears fairly up-to-date, as it discusses much of the relevant information and history of the area. While it does not directly address an equity gap, the article does mention the native tribes and peoples of previous centuries that lived in the region that would become modern-day central Italy, addressing these groups in a neutral manner.

With that said, the list of towns and cities in the area could do with some expanding, instead of simply lumping all into one catch-all term, and the famous people section could possibly be cut down a bit, as it is not immediately clear how every person listed directly relates back to the region at hand. The overall tone and balance of the article, however, appears neutral on all counts. However, the article needs in-text citations and references beyond what is currently just listed on the "Volcanic Activity" section. While these sources relating to volcanism do appear to be reputable and peer reviewed, there is very little external sourcing of information for any other section of the article, including for information that likely should be sourced, including geographic locations, history of the area, and famous people from the region. While it can be assumed this information may be accurate, citations would be necessary to verifiably back up that claim.

From an organizational standpoint, the article is fairly well written-- it contains easy-to-follow sentence structure with material broken up logically into different sections. While some sections ("Towns and Cities", for example) could do with some elaboration, the article overall is organizationally sound. Imagery showing maps of the area, satellite images, and photography from the ground strengthen the article. With that said, the "Talk" page-- while mostly inactive over the past fifteen years-- does have some mention of discrepancy between frequency of eruption dates and the names of certain features in the area. I'm sure we'll discuss these topics more in class in due course.

Overall, this is a good start to an article. Some sections do need a bit of work-- as mentioned above-- and all sections need proper citations for information. I would classify this article as under-developed; an article with potential, but one that needs to be more thoroughly covered and elaborated upon moving forward.