User:Xelabn/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Water privatization in Colombia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because I learned about it in my learning cluster. In addition, the topic is closely related to SDG6 as it prevents people from having access to clean water.

Evaluate the article
The article was very well written and explained the general things about water privatization in Colombia. I do believe that the writer could have gone more in depth and wrote more if they looked for more references. The article has only 8 references which is a small amount compared to other articles on the site. 4 out of the 8 references came from the same author meaning that author of the article didn't do expansive research on the topic. Also, most of the information seems to be fairly out of date as it came from 10-12 years ago. Some of the links presented in the reference do not lead me to a site to certify the information used. In addition, the article didn't include any pictures, which makes it hard for visual learners to understand the content of the article. Some sections of the articles were very short and could be expanded on. This piece also seemed to lean more towards the benefits of water privatization as in the first sentence of the article it stated that water privatization is successful compared to other countries. Aside from the article, there is nothing going on in the talk page, which shows me that this article was only written by one person and could use some improvement. The talk page stated that this information is of utmost importance but is in the "Start" category of the quality scale, meaning that it could use more information. This article is also apart of WikiProject Colombia and that talk page has some discussion on it. If more writers were to contribute to this topic I believe it could be a featured article.