User:Buteokween/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Collective animal behavior - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This page was listed under the C-Class Ecology Articles under mid-importance. The article needs to be fleshed out more overall--paying attention to criticism of the field, as well as the history. I also took Cognitive Ecology last year, and I have a good collection of articles from the field that I can refer to in the article.

Evaluate the article
The article overall is written in a concise manner. The main weakness of the article stems from a need for more examples, especially in the history section at the beginning, and the introductory paragraph. The introductory paragraph mentions applications of collective animal behavior, such as collective artificial intelligence in groups of robots, and I would like to see a section written out about that. The tone and balance of the article is neutral, and the article is well-sourced. Many of the links on the cited sources work, which is awesome--the sources seem up to date. I would like to see Section Group Structure: Experimental Approach -- "Nearest Neighbor Distance" cited. In the talk section, many of the commenters are concerned about whether to add a criticisms section. I think this would be a very useful edition--there are many disagreements in the field of cognitive ecology, and I think there is a lot to talk about there. This wikipage has a good basis of the field's summary, but it would be advantageous to the article if editors dove into the history of the field, disease ecology of collective decision making, and criticism of the field.