User:AccountAlias/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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I am evaluating the Schotten-Baumann reaction article.

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 it because it is a type of reaction that I learned in an organic chemistry course. It matters because it's important to have accurate information about synthesizing chemicals (here, amides). My preliminary impression was that the page gives a basic overview of the reaction, but it is quite short.

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 lead section provides a brief and clear overview of the reaction. It does not, however, include a brief description of the major sections of this article.

The article's content is relevant and up-to-date, but the amount of information given is a bit lacking. It might be useful to add more information about what is being done with the reaction nowadays and what applications it has in the syntheses of certain chemicals.

The article is written in a neutral manner and does not seem to have any bias.

Most facts are backed up by reliable secondary sources. However, some information is not given a source. Half of the sources were written in the past thirty years. The others seem to be from earlier in the 20th century, but they are not irrelevant.

The organization and writing clarity of this article is good. The image provided is accurate, well-captioned, and helps the reader understand the reaction; however, it might be useful to include a mechanism of the reaction.

The talk page only includes one comment from 2008. The article is rated as "Start-Class". It is a part of WikiProject Chemistry, and it is rated as "Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Overall, the article provides an okay overview of the reaction, but it is quite short and does not flesh out what is currently being done with the Schotten-Baumann reaction. I would say that the article is underdeveloped right now.