User:Hookecho/Evaluate an Article

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Anticyclone

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.)

Anticyclones (high pressure or high geopotential height centers) are one of the main atmospheric features which impact weather and are just as important as their counterpart, cyclones. This article gives a good high level conceptual description of high pressure centers, but lacks sufficient scientific journal sources. A majority of the sources come from the National Weather Service or university lecture material, and a handful come from newspaper articles.

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Content

The Lead Section gives a good basic description about what an anticyclone is and some of the associated weather impacts. However, the content is supported by a lot of newspaper articles and university class lectures. There are numerous published books and academic articles which would serve as better sources. Given the free time, I would add more complete descriptions to the structure, effects, and history sections since they are very minimal, and I have some knowledge about this topic.

Tone

The tone is very neutral and uses minimal jargon. In meteorology, there is a large vocabulary of technical terms and they can be confusing, so it is important to link jargon to other wikipedia pages or provide definition sources.

Sources

There should be more academic journal sources, but I realize paywalls could be posing a problem currently. Students with access to university library resources should take the time to add in sources since they likely will have access through their educational institution.

Talk Page

The talk page isn't very active, the last human post was from 2014. There was a discussion about completing a merge with high pressure area, but there was not enough consensus to complete the merger. The main reason given was that the high pressure area page was ranked higher and the would be problems merging sources. In my opinion, the pages should be merged regardless since the topics are essentially about the same thing, the only difference being an anticyclone includes a closed circulation. Due to limitations in observation, it's almost impossible to definitively say whether or not a circulation in the atmosphere is closed, so the point could be argued either way and therefore the high pressure page and anticyclone pages should be merged.