User:Emcam03/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Umbrella species

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it explains one of the classification systems used in conservation biology to help conserve species. The umbrella species are used as a way to help keep many species that are under them protected, as keeping the one species safe causes a cascade of protection.

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.)

This article is pretty well written. The lead section gives most the information needed in the first few sentences including what an umbrella species is and how their protection can influence the environment and other species around them. The main content goes on to explain multiple ways that the use of preserving these species can preserve those around them and the different methods used to keep the habitats safe and actually protect the umbrella species. This article has one picture, which is of a panda along with a caption saying that it is an example of an umbrella species. I feel this would be a good piece of media to share though the caption could be expanded on to provide more detail in how they are can umbrella species. The main conversation going on in the talk page is that it had assembled another page that was called "umbrella effect (ecology)". Once these similarities were noticed, the two pages were combined. This article also has a good amount of sources, all of which seem to come from peered reviewed articles and textbooks. Overall this article was written very well with its of important information about the umbrella species and how they're used to protect other species who interact with them.