User:Cschof5410/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)Cephalopod

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 it relates to the course material of Invertebrate Zoology and it seemed large enough to evaluate. This information is important for us to understand a whole class of animals. My preliminary impression of this article is that it will be very well written and include a wide range of information.

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.)

Lead Section:

The lead section of this article does a very good job of introducing the topic and providing enough background information and quick facts to engage the reader.

Content:

This article is chock full of content ranging from basic facts about cephalopods like what species are included in the class to extremely detailed information like explaining how certain species have pigmented cells that interact with light to allow the cephalopod to engage in multiple different activities.

All of the information given is well written and nothing seems to be less informative than anything else.

Tone and Balance:

This article does an extremely good job of strictly presenting the facts of the matter rather than including the author's opinions and biases.

Sources:

All of the sources that I checked worked well and provided the information that I needed.

Organization:

This article is very well organized and does a good job of giving you the information you need to understand later parts of the article better.

Images and Media:

All of the images and media are informative and provide good visual aspects to an otherwise wordy article. The images are all well captioned and laid out in a visually pleasing way.

Talk page discussion:

The conversations on the talk page all seem to be constructively criticizing the paper very well, providing facts and questioning some aspects of how the article was written.

Overall:

Overall, I would say this is an extremely well-written article. It provides almost all of the information one would need on this subject, it provides good images, it cites all of its sources. I would say that this article is as close to an encyclopedia you can get and that it is very well developed.