User:DestinieYang/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Extremophile

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this Wikipedia article as it was part of the environmental microbiology category. Additionally, as extremophiles are quite fascinating due to their ability to withstand such extreme environments, I felt that this article would be interesting to read and learn more about. My preliminary impression of it was that it would have lots of information as the term 'extremophile' encompasses a variety of different species.

Evaluate the article
 Evaluating content 

I feel that everything in the article was relevant to the article topic and that the information within it rarely distracted the reader from the general knowledge of extremophiles. Additionally, further readings are posted if needed but are completely optional to the reader as it is put at the bottom where it will not distract them from the current passage. The information in the article is pretty recent with lots of sources being within 10 years of 2022. As well, there are 76 sources alone, not counting any further reading sources the reader may choose to do. As this article is not about a specific extremophile, I feel that nothing is underrepresented as it is just the overview of extremophiles. For someone that is not very knowledgeable about environmental microbiology, it may help to add more photos especially under the topic of "Bioremediation".

 Evaluating tone 

The article seems neutral with information from varying sources being shown. There is no clear bias towards anything.

 Evaluating sources 

Of the few citations I checked, only 1 had an invalid URL. Most other sources were accessible without an institution but a handful were also locked behind a paywall/institution access only. All sources seem neutral as they are mostly scientific journals/peer reviewed papers, as well as are from different publications and different authors allowing for a more diverse range of knowledge to be filled.

 Checking the talk page 

There have been old discussions on this article's talk page and many of them are just clarifications and minor fixes as new information comes out/further studies are done. Many edits have been done to fix the article to make it more accurate. The article has been rated as "Start-Class" and has been used for multiple WikiProjects. I'm not sure if this page differs too much from what we have talked about in class as we have not talked too much about extremophiles in class thus far aside from a brief mention of thermoclines and haloclines.