User:Coffeebeangirl/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Crèche (zoology)

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 from the ethology stubs as the topic sounded very interesting to me as it overlaps biology and psychology well. This article is very important as it gives insight to the idea that in many species, such as Canada geese and lions, animals care for another`s offspring. My preliminary impression of this article was that it is very bare. The article contains three paragraphs in total and has no images or headings.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

From reading the first line of this article I can clearly identify the topic of the article. This lead section lacks introduction of the article`s major sections since the article is very underdeveloped and does not have any major sections yet. All information in the lead is relevant to the article. The majority of the lead section includes examples of crèches as opposed to general information about crèches. The lead section is concise but could be organized better once the article is further developed.

Content

The article`s content is relevant to the topic. The content is up to date as the sources range from 2017-2020. Therefore most of the content has come from the past five years. There is no content in this article that does not belong. However, there is certainly information missing, such as how these relationships are formed. This article does not deal with one of Wikipedia`s equity gaps and it does not address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics.

Tone and Balance

This article is still at a development stage and therefore it is a little difficult to evaluate the tone and balance due to limited writing. This article is written in a neutral tone. There are no claims included in this article that have heavy bias toward a particular viewpoint. There are no positions overrepresented or underrepresented. There is no persuasion present in this article.

Sources and References

In this article, there are examples of animals given that form crèches but these examples are not backed up by a reliable secondary source. One of the sources used in this article is a National Geographic article. When you click on the source in the footnotes, it brings the viewer to a random National Geographic page. Therefore, this source has to be fixed. The sources are current as they only date back five years. When searching in Google scholar there are over 8,000 sources available on this topics.

Organization and Writing Quality

This article is well-written. The paragraphs are divided nicely when talking about different species. There are no grammar or spelling errors to be seen. The article is well organized for the stage of development that it is currently in.

Images and Media

This article does not include any images or media.

Talk Page

The first documented edit to this article was in 2007. Since then there have been five edits, the last being in 2017. Throughout the talk section there are different conversations such as wondering if certain words are zoology terms and notifications of sources needing review. This article is a part of the WikiProject Birds and is rated as a stub-class article.

Overall Impressions

The article`s overall status is a stub. Therefore there is an abundance of information and images to be added. The article does a great job in giving examples of animals that take part in crèche relationships. This article can be improved by adding a photo and including more information about how these relationships are formed. I would assess this article as underdeveloped.