User:Aideng427/Evaluate an Article

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Brook trout - Wikipedia

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I've elected to review this article since I find reading about fish interesting, and the brook trout is near and dear to me since it is the state fish and one I frequently fish for.

Evaluate the article
The lead section opens strong stating what a brook trou is and its common names. It also talks about what the article is going to discuss as you read. The lead does include information about the fish being the state fish for multiple states which isn't further discussed in the article. All of the information is relative and up to date that is talked about in the article. There is one section that it briefly talks about the multiple subspecies of the fish and doesn't further elaborate on it. The viewpoint of the article is neutral since it only discusses the facts about the behaviors and characteristics of the trout. The sources all appear to be secondary sources, and all appear to be reliable sources. They include articles talking about historical data and it uses current sources that were published in recent years. The range of authors that wrote the articles varies greatly. The article is well written with little to no errors in grammar. The images are not very well captioned, and I believe better images could have been used to better illustrate the variation in patterns between the different variations of the brook trout. In the talk page they are discussing some math errors with conversions of kg to lbs as well as discussing if there is a contradiction in the life span information that is provided among other things. Overall, the article is well written and accurately describes the behavior and habitat of the brook trout. The article could be improved by further discussing the difference between the small land locked variation of the trout vs. the diadromous variation that is a lot different. In the end the article is well developed.