User:Blueram1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Altruism (biology)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Alturism is a topic that has always Interested me. Organisms working together and behaviours that developed to favour genes, and not the individuals, is something that changed the way I viewed evolution as a whole. After noticing that Alturism was only a C class article, I was interested to see what improvements could be made.

Evaluate the article
The Lead section of this article is well done. The description is very clear and immediately lets the reader know what the article is about. All definitions are sourced well and the historical information on alturism is a nice touch. A interesting picture of alturism in animals should be added.

The content of the article is fairly good. I would like to have more information on how alturism evolved and some examples of not only alturism but how that in turn would be favoured by natural selection. Some of the examples at the end of the article could have been discussed more. Some topics like Handicap Principle and Biological Market Theory should be separate articles and less focused on in this article. All of the links to the sources worked and were recent (as they could be) and relevant. There was a wide range of offers.

The page was well organized but some of the larger paragraphs could have been broken into smaller paragraphs. Overall the grammar and writing style was good some of the sentences were a little confusing to follow and could be simplified.

The images where nice for this article however it would be nice to have more. Alturism is a good topic to show visually and this should be taken advantage of.

There are many conversations in the talk page that show this article is getting some attention. There were a lot of good suggestions on how to improve this article. Wikipedians have suggested changes to the name of the article to Animal Alturism which I think is a good idea considering the content. Also adding some intra species examples would be beneficial.

The overall status of the article is a C and I agree with this, not a failing grade but certainly needs some work. The article does a good job defining alturism and explaining the history and evolution of the word. However, improvements could be made on providing a more diverse and encompassing range of examples, breaking up large paragraphs, adding more photos, and being more specific into alturism instead of peripheral topics. The alturism article is underdeveloped and will benefit from some tweaking.