User:Chevyjm/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gene gun

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article relates to the material I am currently learning about as it is another potential tool, and a quite interesting one, to alter and manipulate gene expression through the mechanical transplant of DNA via a gun. Obviously, a very robust mechanism and maybe lacking some sophistication, but an interesting idea nonetheless.

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 is very concise, but it does cover an overview and general description of the topic. It does not contain any leading information about the sections in the page.

The article does not seem bias towards anything or attempting to persuade in any way. I think the author does a good job at sticking to the important topics of it.

Sourcing and citing seem to be the biggest problems for this article. There are copious amounts of text without a single citation. In the first subsection, the author goes about a paragraph and a half without making a citation while making all sorts of hard statements. Under the 'Biolistic construct design', the author thoroughly describes a technical aspect of the concept but his sole citation for this segment lacks to convey the exact pages in which this information may be found.

The topic seems to be written relatively well. It is very wordy at times and sounds robust.

The talk section goes over some of the pointers I've provided here.