User:CSMicro4054/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Carl_Plaut

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The name sounded familiar and I can't remember why. after reading the article it was probably from his work in making vaccines.

Evaluate the article
The article has a concise introductory sentence. It does not go over the major sections. It has some of the common things Plaut was remembered for such as his work in vaccines or veterinary medicine. Overall the lead is to the point.

The article is relevant to the life of Plaut and to my knowledge up to date. I don’t think it deals with an equity gap as he is a German professor before WW1.

I can see many citations needed statements such as his family, a speculation about why Vincent’s work was preferred over his. I can see some biases in his favor perhaps put there by family or people still working at the microbiology research, so most are positive in nature. There is one claim about bias against his findings in favor of Jean Hyacinthe Henri Vincent due to post ww1 anti-German sentiments but it cites no source. I don’t think there are any fringe viewpoints. The article attempts to persuade the reader into thinking her was a good guy by including a story at the end where when he died, he left cleaning instructions to the cleaning lady to be able to safely destroy his microbial cultures with again no source.

I cannot evaluate many of the sources because the books are in German. One seems to be from an encyclopedia and a bibliography. The encyclopedia is a good source by the bibliography art and medicine is a weird website with old photographs, I can’t tell if it is archiving the pictures or selling the books. The sources are old because Plaut lived 1858-1928 so many of the sources are old and in German. Another source is a textbook from 2013 that is a good source.

The links on Plaut’s page work, some of them like the spirochaeta page have very little info. Others like Pasteur have extensive info.

The wording is a little clunky in some of the sections. I don’t see any grammatical errors or spelling mistakes. It is well organized with sections on Plaut’s life, family publications and notes. The article includes an old photograph of him in his lab with a simple caption. I have no idea if it falls under copywrite as it was taken in 1920 in the US, I think it is public domain now. It is a decent photo given the age. The article has not had any discussions other than being rated low importance and c class by microbiology, fungi, medicine, and biography projects. I believe in class he was just mentioned for his contributions, in Wikipedia it is a little more on his life.

The article’s status is that it is marked as needing improvement but is active to see. The article’s strength is in its story telling of Plaut’s life. I feel like I got a sense of what he was like in the story mentioned above about him thinking of his cleaner’s safety in disposing of his cultures. The article needs to be rewritten and smoothed out; it also needs to site its sources for some of its claims. I would say it is underdeveloped.