User:Amacdo/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

Deep-sea gigantism

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 because we have discussed deep-sea gigantism in class, and really interests me! It matters because it tells us about ways in which deep sea organisms adapt physiologically to a food-scarce environment. My preliminary impression of it was that some animals in the deep sea are really large because they need to consume large prey due to food scarcity.

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.


 * I thought everything in the article was very well organized and relevant to the topic. The pictures were helpful and not distracting.
 * The tone of the article feels unbiased and scientific.
 * While the information is up to date, I think more could be added to the reduced predation pressure section as there are only a couple sentences on this.
 * Source links work and are up to date. The sources are neutral scientific sources and facts are appropriately referenced from a diverse array of journals.
 * This article could include information about contributions regarding gigantism made from deep sea biologists who identify with backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in deep sea biology and biology as a whole.
 * The talk page contains productive conversations regarding the authenticity of photos and edits of other contributors. The article is part of the WikiProject Marine life, and it is rated as a Start-Class on the quality scale and Mid-importance on the importance scale.
 * The Wikipedia page discusses the topic a bit more analytically than we have in class.