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Article Evaluation
Today, I will be talking about a wikipedia article on 'Personality in animals'

Content
The information relayed in this article appears to be adhering to the topic at hand well: it addresses the limitation in animal personality research (i.e. animal vs human personality), some background and to criticism towards it. The articles mentioned seem to be fairly recent however about 1/3 of the articles are from before 2010, indicating that some of the information may need some reviewing. There are books from the 19th century included but a recent article addressing said book is cited therefore the editors were successful in updating some parts of the article.

Tone and Sources
The articles overall tone, in my opinion, does not have a neutral approach. It is centred around a psychological perspective and the information is presented anthropomorphically rather than factually: the behavioural syndromes mentioned is used to describe humans and the five factor model is based on the Big Five personality traits in humans. The lack of neutral tone might be due to the late involvement of ecologist and evolutionary biologist but addressing the lack of non-human based ecologically-driven explanations would have helped to alleviate the tone of the article. Neverthelss, I do feel that the editors took this into account and used as many biological journals to back up their claims and attempt to use a neutral tone. This is ironic too because there are more articles taken from biology-based journal (i.e. biological reviews, zoology, ecology, primatology etc) than any other disciplines that study this topic and very few articles from psychology, anthropology, and veterinary medicine were cited yet the tone does not sound very biological. One of the links for a non-biological article also did not work- Gosling, Samuel & Oliver (1999). Overall, there are some very relevant and evidence-based information to present the topic but there were also some reviews that need to be made to address the lack of a neutral approach and adding functional links to the articles.