User:Beccab01/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Coral bleaching

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am currently employed at the Aquarium lab at Alaska Pacific University where we care and keep coral in our tanks, because of this I thought it was important for me to learn more about how coral is affected in its natural habitat. This subject matters because not only will we lose an important player in the marine ecosystem it also matters because it will not just affect marine life it will also affect human life. When I first learned about coral bleaching when I was in high school I really didn't realize, how many other things would be affected by the destruction of coral reefs.

Evaluate the article
Overall, this article is clear and concise and stays on the topic of coral bleaching. The writers stay on topic and do not write their personal biases into this article. The sources used in this article are current and not too old but I did see that some sources that were cited are from newspaper journals and would suggest to stay clear from news sources because they may be written with a bias. Peer-reviewed sources are always good to take information from instead of news journals. Some links do not work anymore and either need to be replaced or that information be taken out completely. I did identify some grammatical errors throughout the article but they are only minor errors. Other than the few errors the article is fairly easy to read throughout the entire article. All the images selected for this article are well captioned but it would be better for these pictures to be bigger and may be change the layout of where the pictures are. The talk page has a very good community that seems very nice when correcting or editing someone else's work, and it seems like the talk page hasn't been used since April 2020. I think this article is almost a well-developed article it just needs some revisions with sources and some errors in grammar.