User:Clepak2019/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Basal lamina

Gene dosage

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I heard the term in class and did not completely understand it. Basal lamina is a layer of extracellular matrix critical to tissue development and maintenance. I initially thought the article was short.

This article is a stub article meaning it needs improving because it is missing some information. Gene dosage is an interesting topic in genetics that is not necessarily easy to understand without previous knowledge of classical genetics. Preliminary thoughts: title is good, there are only three short paragraphs in the introduction section and 5 references for it. The information is good but needs to be organized and expanded upon.

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 title and first sentence are concise and useful. The lead section could use work, it needs a more complete summary of the topic, possibly include the function to give readers looking for basic understanding a better grasp of the basal lamina. This page uses a lot of information from the "Basement membrane" page rather than expanding on the basal lamina it is more concerned with making sure people know the two topics are different from each other. The citation links in this article do not connect to journal articles, they just cite universities or pictures, only one link connects to a journal article. The article is short but the structure so far generally aligns with other Wikipedia pages.

There is nothing beyond the lead section. The lead itself is a good start but could explain the basics a bit better by explaining that there can be multiple copies of a gene depending on species genetics. Use a model organism to explain the topic such as humans. Explain that humans are diploid meaning that each cell, except sex cells, have 2 copies of each chromosome. Then elaborate how gene dosage can effect expression of proteins and lead to specific phenotypes. Tone and balance are good. Will expand on references as content is added. Overall just a short article that needs some work.