User:Emilyrd77/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
DNA shuffling - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article to evaluate because I am curious about DNA shuffling. This article only provided limited details on the topic and therefore I believe a thorough evaluation would help improve the article. This article is important because DNA shuffling is used to rapidly generate DNA libraries and has applications in areas such as protein pharmaceuticals and vaccines. My preliminary impression of the article was that it was incomplete as it lack any images, a history section and an applications section.

Evaluate the article
The lead includes an introductory sentence that describes the purpose of DNA shuffling but does not explain what DNA shuffling entails. The lead does not include information that is not present in the article and does not include a brief description of the article’s main sections. However, the lead is concise.

The article’s content is relevant to the topic and appears to be up-to-date. While the article does not contain content that does not belong, the article seems to be missing history and applications sections. The article does not deal with one of Wikipedia’s equality gaps nor does it address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics.

The article is neutral without bias toward a particular position, does not overrepresent or underrepresent viewpoints, and does not attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another. There are no fringe or minority viewpoints addressed.

All of the facts within the article are not cited, specifically the shuffling methods section has no sources listed. However, the sources cited for the lead section and procedure are reliable sources of information. The sources are limited and do not reflect all available literature on the topic. The sources are relatively current, by diverse authors, and peer reviewed. There are additional peer reviewed articles that can be used to expand the information provided on DNA shuffling. The links provided within the article work.

The article is concise, clear, and easy to read. The article does not contain spelling or grammatical errors. The information provided is well organized but is fairly sparce. There are no sections on the history or applications of DNA shuffling.

The article lacks images and on the talk page too much similarity between the article and one of the sources is identified. The article is rated as Start-Class with Low-Importance for the WikiProject Genetics and the WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology. The article goes into more detail on the procedure of DNA shuffling than we do in class.

The overall status of the article is Start-Class. The main strengths of the article are the description of the procedure of DNA shuffling, the clarity, and the formal tone. The article can be improved with the addition of history and application sections, images, and more peer-reviewed sources. The article seems underdeveloped as there are only a few short sections and no images.