User:UnfairWoodPecker/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Climate and vegetation interactions in the Arctic

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the article as I did the Making a Small Edit exercise already which was done on Reindeer Herding. Since the article is about climate and vegetation within the Arctic I felt there was a connection between the two as reindeer(caribou) and its range takes place within the Arctic and that they feed on vegetation. The first impression was that article was good but lacked any coverage of places within the Arctic outside of Alaska.

Evaluate the article
The introduction of the article I felt was pretty good in introducing the topic and providing brief context on climate. However, in the introduction I did not feel like the part of vegetation was introduced as the introduction is mainly focused on climate change within the context of the Arctic. Overall the content was neutral in how it was written but it was lacking content in Arctic areas outside of Alaska with the introduction just saying much of the article is focused on Alaska as a lot research took place there. Which feels like a cop out for an article that is supposed to cover the Arctic not the Arctic in Alaska. The sources are from scientific journals based off a quick scan and search of them but they are quite old. As most of the sources are 10 plus years old and that the most recent published source was from 2018. Overhauling and introducing more current sources and adding other locations besides Alaska would greatly improve the article. Images for the article are just images that do not add a lot to the article, as one just shows an Arctic flower while the other one is sort of helpful in showing how fast vegetation grows. The images have a brief description telling a person what is happening in the photos. Moreover, the images do follow the copyright as they are self published by Wikipedia user. There was nothing in the Talk Page. Overall, the article was good in covering climate and vegetation in Alaska not the Arctic which the article is supposedly about. So adding sources to cover areas outside of Alaska would mean the article would be improved as it stands the article is underdeveloped.