User:W3877/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
2012–2014 Romanian protests against shale gas

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It relates to energy extraction and environmental justice.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)


 * Lead successfully summarizes the topic.

There is a mention of protests of shale gas extraction beginning on social media/websites in the leading section but I could not find much information on that in the sections. It is missing information that is talked about in the Background.
 * The lead doesn't necessarily describe each section but it touches on every section made below.
 * Lead is concise.


 * Content is relevant to topic, the topic is explored throughout the article.
 * Seems to be up to date as the article discusses something that happened within a set period of time.
 * Missing content about specific effects of drilling gas.
 * Not a lot of detail about underrepresented groups.


 * Language could be more neutral.
 * Because of the nature of the topic, there is language that expresses the feelings of protesters against gas extraction. How that is expressed skews towards favoring protestors. For this reason, the language could be evaluated to present information more neutrally.


 * Sources are current to the time period the article discusses.
 * References feature many news publications which reflect available literature on topic.
 * There is information that is not citied.


 * Needs to be more concise.
 * Noted a few grammatical errors.
 * Sections are organized by year but some of the years protests occurred overlap. The 2014 heading has one section in comparison to the 2013 section which has a lot more information. For this reason article could use some restructuring.


 * Article is rated as a C-class article.
 * The neutrality has been disputed.
 * Very little discussion on Talk Page.