User talk:VanessaBlag25/sandbox

Article evaluation

Notes: •	Accurate information and statistics are provided including the number of acres •	14 references listed •	4 external links listed •	Section about drilling provided •	Other links to Wikipedia articles that are relevant to the article

The article I am choosing to evaluate is “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”, since it is so closely related to my previous topic ANWR: Addressing Climate Change in the Arctic. My first impression of the article is that it doesn’t have a whole lot of information about the refuge itself. However, I do notice that everything on the article is relevant to the topic. In this article it provides a lot of reference, fourteen specifically, which I could refer to for furthermore information about the refuge. There was nothing necessarily that distracted me from the topic in this article. From doing previous research on this topic, I knew that the controversy of drilling in the Arctic would be present. However, in the section “Drilling” there were no heavy biased opinions, actually there were no opinions stated at all. It just states what the debate is about and the two sides that are in argument. The only possible “biased opinion” that was introverted in this article is the section “Porcupine caribou herd”. This section explains that the future possible drillings for oil could run out this species unto an area where they would be targeted as the primary prey. With this being said, in this article I feel as if this topics of drilling and preservation of the wildlife is being underrepresented. This section alone only has three sentences which is an inaccurate representation of this topic because this topic is widely linked to the stakeholder ANWR.ANWR for years is mostly known for the controversy of protecting the precious land and rare wildlife that presides there from the business and companies who are trying to rid the land for oil. This reason alone is why I picked the topic for this course because I wanted to be more informed on the lack of preservation happening in the Arctic. As far as the references, I am very pleased to see that all the references ad links are reliable and also active sources. All the references represented are peer-reviewed or scholarly sources. These sources are also relevant to this stakeholder ANWR and the additional information provided. In the sources listed there some biased, such as the article “ President Obama calls on Congress to Protect Arctic Refuge as wilderness”. Even though this is used as a source, as I stated previously,the preservation of the refuge and the topic of drilling was not accurately expressed throughout the article. All the resources are very much up to date as there is one article that was published as recent as 2017.In this article, I feel as if there is plenty of information missing. Specifically of the controversy of drilling, the preservation of the wildlife, and the lack of information of how many diverse and rare species that are present in this refuge. Not only should this article provide this information as it is vital to the arctic, but this information is crucial for the world to know as climate change is a huge dilemma in today’s society. Many are informed that the wildlife and land in the Arctic are the first to be affected by global warming. This information would be what I would discuss in the talk page and leave feedback that these pieces information should be included. Overall, a stakeholder this prevalent and widely known should have more information on this article.

Part Two: There are no conversations particularly with this topic. The article is rated a C-class on the project's quality and important scale and a high importance on the project's importance scale by the "WikiProject Protected areas" and "WikiProject Alaska". There was not much difference of how Wikipedia discusses the way editing compared to what we learned in class and within the modules I've completed. As I was informed already to what Wikipedia's editing was going to be like. My question for this topic article: Why is the controversy of drilling and the preservation of wildlife not more thoroughly explained with detailed information?REDIRECT Arctic National Wildlife Refugehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_National_Wildlife_Refuge