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Article Evaluation

Article Evaluated: White-backed vulture

I believe this article was concise, relevant and on topic in its description of the White-backed vulture. I was not distracted by any fluff information that seemed unnecessary because the article was short and to the point. The article remained fairly neutral in its description of the birds range and diet and the only time it could possibly be considered to be biased is in its mentioning that the vultures conservation status was recently changed from "least concern" to "near threatened" and multiple theories presented as to why these animals could be threatened. Although I do not believe any of the writers singled out one reason as to why the vultures were threatened, they do speak a fair amount about this being a conservation concern which some individuals may not like. All the citations used are fairly recent (most within the last 10 years) and are from reputable groups such as the IUCN Redlist, the Journal of Applied Ecology, Birdlife International and research groups in different parts of Africa. These sources all rely heavily on scientific evidence and many are peer reviewed although all are very centered around conservation, possibly skewing the way they report the African Vulture issue. The sources do in fact support the claims made in the article, although further research would have to be done to make sure that these sources found and presented their data in a way that did not cherry pick information regarding this topic which is always possible in a scientific paper. Looking at the Talk page of the article, it shows that this article is part of a project by the name of WikiProject Birds, and is considered a start class in terms of quality and low importance in terms of the project's importance scale. It seems that there is no conversations going on relative to this article which could be explained by its low importance/priority in the larger view of the project. Wikipedia speaks to this topic from the more ecological side, although we have talked about most of the threats mentioned in the article in class and have in fact gone into some of the issues in greater discussion.