User:Tvu27/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Human ecology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because it is a subfield of ecology that is most interesting to me. It relates to how humans interact with environment, which is something that is very important to understand. Overall, I found it to be an interesting read, but it was definitely intimidating to start.

Evaluate the article
I thought the article was good at connecting human ecology to other fields outside of ecology, without straying away too much from the main topic. The information was up to date, especially with things that concern our world today, such as the sixth mass extinction. One thing regarding the article's content that I feel like could use some improvement is including different cultures (especially non-Western ones) and how they may have contributed to our knowledge of human ecology or talk about their interactions with the environment.

I thought the article maintained a neutral tone throughout. I feel like there wasn't really much room to have certain viewpoints because human ecology is such a broad topic, so the sections weren't covered as thoroughly.

After looking at the sources, I found that that there was a huge variety of sources that support different claims in the article. It did a good job of citing primary sources when talking about the history of human ecology. There was also use of recent sources when talking about events and topics that are relevant today.

I found the talk page to have interesting conversations regarding this topic, and they also provided any improvements this page may need. One example is that there was a note saying how this article should have an "ambiguous word" entry since human ecology is such a broad term and can describe more than one thing. Another user also said there could be more images added to this article, which I agree with because that would make the article more enticing to read and make it look less intimidating.