User:Achait2023/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Taq polymerase

Taq polymerase

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 was a C ranked wikipedia page in the molecular biology wikiproject that I had a bit of familiarity with. It matters because it is a commonly used protein in PCR experiments and is important in both past and present molecular biology research. I thought the article was okay, but there were areas that needed improvement.

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 does an okay job of introducing the topic, but it could be made more precise and should introduce the use of Taq polymerase in the first sentence as it is its most well known feature. The lead is brief, but does not go over the sections through the rest of the article.

While the article's content is relevant to the topic, it misses out on some information and is not currently up to date.

The article appears to be neutral with no viewpoint being praised over another.

While some of the sources seem fine, there are a few issues. The article relies on primary sources rather than secondary. The article also has some links that are no longer working or are decades old. I would suggest using a more current, secondary source for this article.

The article is written okay and there don't seem to be any major grammatical errors, but the article would benefit from a more organized version.

The images could labeled and sourced better.

Talk page seems to have died around 2008. They mostly talk about how to word aspects of the article.

Article has been labeled a C grade and should remain as such. While the article has some great information, it need more current sources and it needs to be reorganized. It overall a bit underdeveloped, but there is an outline of greatness in its present form.