Deforestation
The Wikipedia article on Deforestation has a certain flow to it that creates an easy read for the viewer. There are many important facts and statistics in the article that show just how critical having forests in our communities can be. The majority of these have sources to back them up, so overall the article is decently trustworthy, but there are some parts that have no data backing them up, and also parts that seem to have bias, and personal opinion. For example, the author states “The term deforestation is often misused to describe any activity where all trees in an area are removed,” which seems to have a personal opinion embedding within it. The author should have said something along the lines of “The term deforestation is often used to describe any activity where all trees in an area are removed, but the definition states …..” This quote from the article also does not have any resources backing it up, so neutrality is disputed. There are many of these occurrences, bringing the reliability of this article down, but there are also 165 citations that support the majority of the article. The article meets most of the criteria according to wikipedia, but also to the criteria discussed by Middlebury college. There is not much history of changes and edits on the website, although there was an edit on September 2nd, but there are a few comments on the “talk” page, pointing out parts in the article called “nonsense”. I could not locate the author of this article, so no information about their credentials were given, making the article less reliable. Most of the other articles and sources cited are educational websites with few abstract, perionally written articles.