User:Biologystudent4/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Blue–white screen

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.) The chosen article outlines an important screening technique used in molecular biology and could be elaborated on. My first impression of the article is that it is very short.

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 find the Lead Section summarizes the article well and contains an overview of the major sections included in the article. Most of the content is neutral and relevant to the topic. Some information referenced from source 9 concerning media affects on GFP function is unrelated to blue-white screening and I believe should be removed since the focus of the article is on blue-white screening, not using GFP for the same function. Also, as mentioned in the talk page methods of addressing faults in the technique, like using gel electrophoresis to check for false positives or negatives, would complement the drawbacks section well. The sources are all academic and most are easily recognized to be from reliable publishers. A source is used twice in the References section, which I believe is a mistake. Some locations in the article are unclear and could definitely be improved grammatically. The media complements the article well by visualizing an actual plate where this technique was used and showing the process within the cells that produce the resulting coloration. The article has a good overview of the basic, essential information on the topic; however, I believe it can be improved with more up to date sources and more information on how shortcomings of the technique are negated.