User:CarterBelhumeur/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Neanderthal extinction

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I found it interesting, It is an important part of evolutionary history, And I noticed a few small changes that would help to improve the article.

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.)

The Lead section of the article is concise about exactly what the reader will find in the following article, which in this case was a more in depth look at the extinction of Neanderthals. There is not an excess amount of information for the reader to sort through nor is there any information unrelated to the article.

The Content of this article is all relevant to the title and did not stray from the designated topic. The article is also being maintained to this day, being edited most recently this morning. A few parts of the text are more in depth than others however not in a way that the article feels imbalanced or sloppy. Overall I would say the article contains good informative content on the topic in question.

The article is from an entirely neutral Tone with no bias and Balanced viewpoints that do not suggest the reader in any given direction, there is purely neutral information on the subject backed only by modern scientific fact.

The Neanderthal extinction article boasts an impressive amount of Sources and References. All of the sources are properly cited, and most are from academic archaeology journals and reliable sources, such as National Geographic, Journal of Archaeological Science, and Nature. The proper citation of such reliable sources with working links and from a diverse mix of authors leads me to believe the article is factual and correct.

Organization and Writing quality seem to be no problem in this easy-to-read article as it appears to be a professionally written article with no noticeable spelling or grammatical issues, organized into simple sections that make sense.

The Images and Media in this article are effective in being related to the topic, however when it comes to the image captions, they are just about as basic as they can get and could be made more descriptive.

The Talk Page for this article is well developed with changes being made to this article spanning the past 8 years, most of which are extremely professional edits made in a respectful and helpful manner. There are many parts that were in the original article that have been removed as well as many things that have been added as our scientific knowledge of Neanderthals progresses over the years.

Overall impressions of the article is that it is strong and effective in highlighting what brought about the extinction of Neanderthals and it contains a good amount of information about the ancient species, however I would not coin the article completely finished until we are able to say exactly what wiped Neanderthals from the planet, instead of hypothesizing an assortment of reasons. I believe the article is as well developed as it can be at this point in time. The only portion of the article that I believe fell short was in the severe lack of in depth captions for the images. There is currently room for confusion interpreting every one of the images because only a broad brief description is given for each one. This however could be addressed very easily by adding greater detail to each one.