User:Brasson4/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)Natural science

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.)

I chose Natural Science because I find it interested to read about and it combines many subjects of science into one to understand how things work which is neat.

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.)

Yes the lead includes a beginning sentence that explains what the article will be about. The lead section includes a brief paragraph explaining what the later major sections will be about. All the information that is mentioned is talked about later on in the article. It is concise and easy to read and follow.

The content in the article is relevant to Natural Science breaking it into subsections to understand it better. The content is up-to-date, even consisting of a timeline of the history going back to 400BC up until the present time. All the content is fitting and helps to give the reader a better understanding of what Natural Science is and how it works.

The article is neutral in the writing as there are no sides in Natural Science. Nothing in any of the sections is biased as they just explain smaller areas of science that contribute to natural science.

Everything in the article is backed up by a reliable secondary source and provides links to the main articles for all the sections in the article where the information comes from. All of the references are thorough and made in current times in the 2000's. Many of the references come from one single author but there is a bit of diversity still. The references are peer-reviewed articles which are very reliable and the links work.

The article is well-written and easy to follow as it has on the side a table of contents and is broken down into sections that all go together to explain natural science.

Images are provided that help to understand sections of the topic and there is one for nearly all of the sections listed. Each picture has a detailed caption explaining what it is and they adhere to the copyright regulations. The images are placed in a visually appealing way to not distract from the text but helps to break up all the sections better.

There are many discussions going on on the talk page about ways to expand the topic and article by adding more sections and branches to natural science. The article is in many WikiProjects also like WikiProject: Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, and Technology. The article is rated B-class by WikiProject Vital Articles.

The article lists many sections of science and explains them and how they relate to natural science and it gives the reader a good understanding of many areas of science for future use. They could go into more detail as they are brief but the article is still well-developed and gives many facts and information