User:Ckosiak/Evaluate an Article


 * Sporosarcina pasteurii
 * This bacterium has great potential in the construction industry and people may not know its power and abilities. I would like to research more about how exactly the bacterium can precipitate calcite through what biological process. It would be beneficial to see what other applications there are for the bacterium; if combined with other bacteria what the results would be.

Lead
Lead evaluation

The first sentence includes the most important details about the topic, however it is a little long. It can definitely be cut down and made more concise. For example, not including the old name of the bacterium until later in the page would make more sense. It mentions the process the bacterium goes through - microbiologically induced calcite precipitation - but does not explain this process in more detail anywhere in the article. The intro mentions one application of the bacterium and goes into some more detail in a section following the intro. There could be additional information about the bacterium and its origin, physical characteristics, and genome in the introduction. There can also be an introduction to more sections that will be below, since there are currently none other than the applications

Content
Content evaluation

The current content in the article is minimal. Although it is related to the topic including one of its main applications, there could be more detail about the bacterium itself. It currently mentions a student that introduced this idea and a biotechnological company that is trying to utilize this bacterium. Both of these include dates of specific awards that were won with this bacterium's application.

The article is very neutral and states the straight facts. There is no appearance of biased statements about the bacterium or its applications. It is very objective and is not trying to persuade the reader in favor of anything. This type of tone should be kept throughout the article. The only concern is to possibly mention the disadvantages or challenges of this bacterium in its application since the article only states that it is helpful in construction applications.

Tone and Balance

 * Tone and balance evaluation

The article is very neutral and states the straight facts. There is no appearance of biased statements about the bacterium or its applications. It is very objective and is not trying to persuade the reader in favor of anything. This type of tone should be kept throughout the article. The only concern is to possibly mention the disadvantages or challenges of this bacterium in its application since the article only states that it is helpful in construction applications.

Sources and references evaluation
There are 4 listed sources for this article. One is a TED talk, one is a project summary, and one is a scientific journal. All of this information is from 2010, so there is room for some updating. Most of the links to the sources that were tested work and lead to the correct locations. The journal article is from the American Society for Microbiology so it is credible.

Organization

 * Organization evaluation

Overall the article is very concise, to the point that more detail and information could be beneficial. It is a primitive summary of the bacterium and gives the basic information about it including what family it is from. It is clean so far with no noticeable grammatical errors just some run-on sentences. In addition, it lacks different sections that further describe the bacterium. It could be better organized that way by separating information into more categories.

Images and Media

 * Images and media evaluation
 * There is only one image on the page of desertification. There is no image of the bacterium itself, which is problematic. Although the image is captioned, it does not portray the main idea of the article. It does not portray any identification of the bacterium at all. It can confuse the reader about the content of the article. Under first impression, the reader would not think it is about a bacterium. In general, the location is in the correct spot though and cited correctly.

Checking the talk page

 * Talk page evaluation

This page has been part of two other WikiProjects including Soil and Microbiology but was rated as low-importance. It was requested that an image be added to improve the content on the page. Overall, Wikipedia categorizes the article under similar topics as this class such as Microbio. It correlates it with the earth science portal too, which is consistent with the topic it falls under.

Overall impressions

 * Overall evaluation

Overall, the article has accurate information that is presented professionally. However, it could use addition of much more content that could describe the bacterium specifically. There should be less emphasis on its applications. Also, there could be more categories because currently there is missing information about the bacterium identity. It could be much more developed with more sources and information.