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• Effects of climate change on plant biodiversity 

· Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?

- The sources referred in this article are mostly reliable and appropriately cited. However some sentences were missing appropriate references to support the information.  

·Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

- Yes, most of the topics in the article had relevant information.  

· Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

-The article is in the position where they suggest that there is a negative impact on biodiversity because of climate change and also indicated that it is difficult to predict species ranges in response to all climate changes from man. 

· Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

- Most information came from the scientific research papers that cover global biological or ecological trends created by current climate changes.

· Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

- Effects of temperature and water were underrepresented. ‘Indirect impacts of climate change’ was over represented.

· Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?

- Some had links where the sites require reader to purchase the cited paper to view.

· Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

- Citation 28 was not relevant to stated information that it was wrong citation, so need other reference to add.

· Climate Change is a semi-protected article on Wikipedia. Why do you think this is? Is it a good or a bad thing?  

- Because it’s a subject that need people who are professional and actually studying in this field.

- Climate Change is one of global issues that can attract trolls and misinformation can encourage readers to fall into conspiracy theories.  

· Check the "talk" page of the articles - what is the Wikipedia community discussing when it comes to representing these issues? How is the article ranked on Wikipedia's quality scale?

- Quality scale was C-class.

· If you picked the article about Ecology to evaluate - did you see mention of climate change? Why or why not? If you were going to create a new article about climate change and it's relationship to Ecology, what information would you add? 

- Yes, because the article was focusing on how biodiversity changes when climate changes.

- Both positive and negative impacts and its economic costs worldwidely