User:CrowJohnston205/Evaluate an Article

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(Provide a link to the article here.) Saola

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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I chose this article because I like the Saola. They are very cool animals. The Wikipedia article was also quite barren and needed some reshaping.

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The lead is adequate information wise but it needs to be seriously rephrased to make it not a run on sentence. I'd word it as "The saola, scientifically named Pseudoryx nghetinhensis is one of the world's rarest large mammals. The saola is also commonly called the spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or ,Vu Quang bovid. The Saola is a forest-dwelling bovine, that is native to Vietnam and Laos in the Annamite Range."

The content of the article is mostly relevant but the diet section is painfully under worked on. There is essentially no information present. It needs to be completely redone. The cultural section as well is pitiful and needs completely revamped.

The references section seems to be ok and in date but there is literally only one source. Someone needs to provide more sources to add to this famished article. The references seem to all be topical and from the correct range of people.

The images provided adhere to Wikipedia's copy write codes. For the most part they are quality images, however, if I had no idea what this animal was initially I wouldn't be able to describe it to you with any sort of details. There needs to be more, clear and well lit, pictures to supplement this article.

Much like the rest of this article the talk page is very sparse. There is someone who wanted to rework the wording of an awkward sentence. There is someone truing ot include the Hmong term for the animal. Someone is baffled by the term "Asian unicorn" and there is someone adding references. Most of the conversations are pretty open and closed.

My article is part ofthe mammals, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and Cryptozoology Wikiprojects. Sadly Wikipedia considers this low to mid importance. I think that the article is strong in the sense that it is collecting hthe very limited information that is available for the animal. The article seems to be well written and is easy to breeze through and comprehend. I feel as though I completely understand everything in it and it provide a good summary. I think the article needs more people paying attention to it to add information so it can be expanded upon.