User:Acarson2019/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Extremophile

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am very interested in astrobiology. Within the field of astrobiology extremophiles are well studied. I would like to some day do research looking at the potential life on Mars. If there is life on Mars, they will likely be extremophiles.

Evaluate the article
The introductory sentence in this article is very good. The sentence briefly explains extremophiles very simply and completely.

All of the links that I clicked did indeed work. The links went to appropriate links with more valuable information.

This article is listed as a level-4 vital article. This means that the article is important however it also says that is under construction. This means that although the article has some good information, it is slightly out dated and could use some additional information added to it.

I enjoyed the talk page for this article. There are previous conversations of people asking questions and responding. In these conversations there were additional links to recommending cites. I have a big interest in methanogens which are technically extremophiles but have similar characteristics. On the talk page, some people mentioned them but did not have enough information to really determine whether or not it should be added. This could be a good addition.