User:Biochemiscool/Evaluate an Article

Article Evaluation

 * Name of article: (Alkaline phosphatase)
 * I chose this article to evaluate because I purified alkaline phosphatase in lab and I was interested in learning more about the protein

Lead

 * Yes the lead concisely describes the subject of the article through providing acronyms and other names for alkaline phosphatase.
 * The lead does not include a brief description of the article's major sections.
 * The Lead does not include information that is not present in the article.
 * The lead is very concise.

Content

 * The article's content is relevant to the topic.
 * The content is not up-to-date. There is a section for "ongoing research," but it doesn't include information about alkaline phosphatase as an unconventional immune system and more recent research.

Tone and Balance

 * The article is neutral and there don't appear to be claims that are heavily biased toward a particular position. I thought that the "scoring method" was overrepresented in the introduction, as it was not focused on later in the article. I think the description of leukocyte alkaline phosphatase later in the piece should have been included in the introduction and the specific information in the introduction should've been included later on.
 * The article does not attempt to persuade the reader to be in favor of one position over the other.

Sources and References

 * Not all the facts in the article are backed up by a reliable secondary source of information. To be more specific, the first paragraph of the "Structure and Properties" section was not properly cited. The kinetics information was not correctly cited and the details relating to the mechanism were not correctly cited.
 * Most of the links work. However, the links for "phosphate-specific transport system," "alkaline phosphatase staining," "homoarginine," and "congenital iodine deficiency" are not working.

Organization

 * Overall, the article is well written. However, there are a few grammatical and spelling errors. "Km" requires the m to be in the subscript and there are a few run on sentences.
 * I don't think the article is well-organized. The major points of the topic are not reflected in the various sections. "Dairy Industry" is under "Uses for Research" rather than being in a separate category related to industrial uses.

Images and Media

 * The article includes two images that serve to enhance the reader's understanding of the content. This structural image shows that there alkaline phosphatase is dimeric through a ribbon diagram. However, aside from that information, no other information is suggested by the image. Another structural image is seen directly below the first image, so the images are not laid out in a visually appealing way. Furthermore, the information shown is repetitive.
 * The first image is well captioned and has a legend for the different termini.

Checking the talk page

 * The way that Wikipedia discusses this topic differs from the way we've talked about it in class since we mainly focused on bacterial alkaline phosphatase. Here, Wikipedia is proposing that there are other tests that can be carried out using alkaline phosphatase and also discusses alkaline phosphatase as it functions in the human body.

Overall impressions

 * Overall, I think this is an informative article but it needs to be better organized. This article contains information on various assays and applications of alkaline phosphatase. Through correcting grammatical errors and including more informative images, this page can be improved.