User:Ddav4/Evaluate an Article

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Weevil

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 recently had to do brief research on this insect. My first impression of this article is that it gives a good brief overview of the weevils that would allow someone to do further research on them.

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 has an introduction sentence that clearly describes what the weevil is known for and what family they belong to. It includes basic information about the insect such as it's length, number of species, and parts of a weevil

Content, Tone, and Balance

The content of this article provides information on the most important parts of the weevil beetles such as its taxonomy and information on its sexual dimorphism. The content is up to date, with the last edit being on January 15, 2024. The article is also written in a neutral tone. There are parts that describe how some view the weevil as a pests, and then lists behaviors of the weevil that would cause this thinking. The article does not agree or disagree with this claim, only describe how it can be thought by some.

Sources and References

This article has 15 references with most being about the history and discovery of different weevils. Some references seem to come from sources that are not particularly reliable, such as sources from a home decoration website. The oldest source is from 1994 and the newest is from 2022. There is one link to a further readings article. Most sources work though there is one link to an extinct weevil that does not pull up.

Organization, Images, and Media

The article is well organized and broken down into easy to read sections and lists. There are only two images, but links to other families of weevil are present where more specific pictures can be found.

Talk page

This article is rated level-4 C class and is apart of the insects wikiproject. The most recent talk is from 2022, asking about information to a red link for one of the weevil species names. More images of weevils can be found here, though they are not found in the article.