User:Abbievaughn/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Methanococcus maripaludis)

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.)

I chose this article as it is the article my group and I will be editing throughout the semester. I think learning about each individual bacteria is important to understand how the organisms work and function in the world around us. From a first glance the article seems very informational having an overview in the beginning and a few sub categories to go into more specifics of the bacteria.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

There is a lot of information gaps throughout the article. The article lists the metabolic processes but does not go into detail about any of them or how they benefit the organism. The cell structure category is also very short with some gaps in the specificity and details of a cell's structure. I think the environmental roles could be expanded upon as they state methanococcus maripaludis to be apart of many roles but only give one example. There is not a heavy compelling or bias tone as it is a research article that seems to be just stating facts about the function and structure of the bacteria. All of the citations used are for definitions and explaining further a metabolic pathway. The links work and provide more information on the specific pathway or structure component but they are all wikipedia articles which does not give variety or completely reliable references. There is not much conversation going on about this article on the talk page. There is only one comment and it is about the links and the specificity of the metabolic pathways. Overall an informational article with a great outline but I think it will be good to add more and work on the article's details.