User:Yajzel V/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Environmental racism

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.)

This article is interesting to me because environmental racism is a concept that is being thought in many of my Environmental Systems classes at school, which was something that wasn't usually discussed before in environmental classes. Usually these classes tend to revolve around topics discussing how humans alter/impact ecosystems and nature, but nowadays more emphasis is being put into how many environmental issues also have underlying racist issues.

Evaluate the article
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The article seems very well written, with a lot of citations and a good structure. The article maintains a very factual and neutral tone, however, in some parts, it seems a little biased towards environmental racism specific to the United States. For example, when the article discloses environmental issues by region, the U.S. has a larger section than most other regions/countries.

The citations links seem to work effectively, and are peer-reviewed articles. Though some of them are older, most sources seem to be up to date from only a couple of years back. The images also seem appropriate; there isn't too many, or any at all. However, maybe adding a couple of graphs that visualize the issues by region, to accompany that lead section, would be helpful.

Other Wikipedians have also noticed the greater focus on Environmental Justice in the U.S., and there is now a page exclusive to an article on this topic.

The article was subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment on September 1st, 2021 through December 14th, 2021.