User:Bluebunny12233/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Domestication of the Syrian hamster

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article to evaluate because I am interested in strain hamsters and have 2 of my own. It matters because this article was made to educate people of Syrian hamsters but since it is older I can edit in how hamsters are today than they were in 1948-1950.

Evaluate the article
Yes the introduction of this article clearly describes the topic. The lead does provide a brief description of what the articles is about, the article does not have any information that is present. I personally don't think that the lead is overly detailed. The articles content is related to what the articles topic is, the content is not up to date. I don't think that there is any content that is missing or doesn't belong. The article does discuss topics from history as it quotes a lot from the book of the 2 brothers that made hamsters into a species. The article is neutral and there is no claims that are heavily bias toward a certain position. I don't think that there is any viewpoints that are overrepresented or underrepresented. The article doesnt attempt to persuade the readers to favor anything since it is only talking about the domestication of Syrian hamsters.

I believe all the facts are backed up because the person who wrote this article quoted from books a lot and quoted from the founders of the hamsters (the 2 brothers) books.The sources are not through i.e and the sources are not current. I don't think this article is written by a diverse spectrum of authors. Yes there are other articles that are better sources, The article is clear to read but it does have some grammatical and spelling errors, the article is also broken down into sections that talk about a certain topic about the hamster in each section. The article does have images but the images are more on the older side, it has 2 images if hamsters and the others are people. The images are well captioned and it describes what the image is or what is about. I believe that the images are with wikipedias copyright regulations, The images are laid out next to the article that is about the image or it is also by the section because it will have some details about it.

The article is rated as class B and has been rated as mid-importance, the article is apart of wiki project rodents. The articles overall status is B- class rodent articles and mid-importance rodent articles. The overall strength of this article isn't too bad, it had everything organized into sections but some of the grammar and spelling could've been better. I would say when the article was written it was well developed but since the article has gotten older, I'm sure that it is now underdeveloped now.