User:Aguabreadlizard/be bold

Article Evaluation

 * California condor
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Yes. I think that this article provides a substantial amount of information.  It covers their evolutionary history, a description of them, historic range, the ecology and behavior, relationships with humans and also goes extremely in depth with the different conservation efforts.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The only thing that I found is that there is a significant amount of blame on the condors for essentially not being strong enough to survive. I think that is a little weird but I also do not know too much on the subject so I cant say that that is wrong exactly.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * There is a lot about the conservation efforts. I would like to maybe see this on another page that was tied to this one instead of this just being an extremely long page.  Its also at the bottom so I don't think many people get all the way down there anyways.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * The links work and are good sites, however a significant amount are pretty old. Some new info would be good.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * I think that the facts are good. They all seemed reliable and scrolling through the references I saw a lot of well known and established sources.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Like I said before, a significant amount of information is old. I think that some of it is fine, but its always good to have more.  There are a lot of sources from the 80s-90s which is a lot of time in the academic world - especially for science.
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * The talk page is (or should I say was) very active. There is a lot of talk going on in 2008 but nothing recently.  The conversations are between people who really seem like they know a lot about birds.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * This is a featured article so it is very good. It is part of WikiProject United States, Birds, California, and Spoken Wikipedia.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * I don't think it does. It is a very nice page.