User:Abostick95/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Shrimp

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 because I don’t know a lot about shrimp and how they behave. The article had over 100 sources cited and it looked appealing. There were a lot of images and each section was detailed.

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.)

The Wikipedia article talks about shrimp, they are an invertebrate organisms that are crustaceans. The lead section starts by defining that shrimp are decapod crustaceans and it provides a detailed description of how the organism looks and it also gives and overview of the organism that mentions each of the sections listed on the page. It stated what habitats shrimp could be found in such as coast, rivers and lakes. Their behaviors with predators was also mentioned it stated that the organisms may dive down in the sediment to escape predation. It also discussed how they reproduce through spawning and can be found in their habitats alone but also are known to gather in schools during certain times. It ends stating that the organism is beneficial not only to the food chain for other organisms but as a economic industry for humans. This gives a great overview of the topics that are going to be discuss later in the article. The section is clear, concise and in the same describes each section of the article in the order that it is written.

The content in the article is relevant to the topic. It goes over the shrimps description, habitat, behavior, species and uses. This content is up to date as it states it was last edited on 01/20/2021. After checking the edit history I see some changes were made to the citations as well as adding where the locations of certain species can be found. The mating section of this article was not as detailed as all of the other sections and I feel as it could use some improvement. The sources are still however cited and the paragraph is concise.

The articles was written in from a neutral point of view and did not appear to be biased at all. All if the facts are backed up by sources and some of the sources have been obtained within the last couple of years. There are a number of textbooks and articles that were used to create this article for example there were two or 2 sources from the Oxford Press. The links to those articles worked as well as the links to a few other external pages.

The images in this article grasped my attention from the beginning. There are many charts and diagrams that helps assist with learning the phylogeny of the organism. All diagrams are descriptive and the photos are all well captioned. They adhere to the copyright regulations of Wikipedia and are labeled as to where they were obtained from.

This article is a part of four other WikiProjects. It is rated as a class B level 4 Biology article so it definitely could use a little work but it is not a horrible article. Overall, I think this article was pretty good at giving a general overview of the organism and providing visual representation to help understand some of the information provided in the article. I thought the article was developed well enough to obtain information from for those who are not knowledgeable about the organism and provided a great reference point for sources that could be used to obtain information.