User:Washyourpillowcase/Evaluate an Article

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this topic because I am extremely interested in marine life and the oceans chemistry is extremely important to the marine life because of how sensitive they are to changes in the oceans chemistry. My preliminary thought of this article was that it was lacking information on topics listed in the lead and has a lack of structure.

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.)

The lead section of this article is missing an introductory sentence to describe what ocean chemistry entails. The lead also lists off topics as sub-categories that are not mentioned in the rest of the article. Also in the lead section, there is too much information on human impact on the ocean chemistry, which becomes redundant later in the article. The content of this article looks to be up to date but has many gaps in the information. Most of the topics mentioned in the lead are barely touched on or not touched on at all. While I would say that the article is pretty neutral, they do heavily over-represent human impacts compared to the other sub-topics in the article. When checking on the citations, the 14th citation lead to a website with no article, therefore putting into question the authenticity of the information. Besides that citation, the articles and sites cited were legitimate and had current information on the topic. The comments left on the talk page are similar to mine, in that this article is very broken up and needs a whole rewrite. This article was rated as a C-Class article and is apart of Wiki project oceans, chemistry, limnology and oceanography and climate change.

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