User:Benwinog/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Indel

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.)

Indel errors are a common type of error in bioinformatics, and they have lots of significant effects. Initially this article looked a little messy, with not much formatting and lots of missing citations.

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.)

This article for a commonly used term probably needs a little work.


 * The opening sentence is strong, provides an accurate definition of the term.
 * Microindel seems like it should be its own paragraph at least? see talk page post "definition of microindel" by mjatucla
 * Although its quite short, I would suggest at least one section, probably on effects/consequences of indels; this could help with the general lack of formatting.
 * The final paragraph should possibly be an other uses/origins section? See talk post "Needs Updating" by mjatucla
 * Content is possibly getting out of date? the most recent citation is from 2013, most are 2000s.
 * A couple missing citations, all tested citations worked.
 * I would suggest paragraphs 2 and 4 be rewritten to be one paragraph about frameshift mutations.
 * A figure illustrating the term would be beneficial.