User:HCH2 UofSC/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Marine invertebrates

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is about marine invertebrates. Since I am a marine science major and this class focuses on invertebrates, I felt this article would be appropriate for the exercise and interesting to me.

Evaluate the article
The article has a strong and concise lead section that states what marine invertebrates are and gives the reader and idea of the information that is going to be covered.

The article's content is relevant to the topic and up to date. The article seems to very thoroughly explain the different phylum that marine invertebrates can fall into. None of the content is irrelevant to the article.

The article is very neutral and does not try to persuade the readers in a particular direction.

The article references many sources and contains all the citations. Much of the sited work are journals and peer reviewed articles. Many have been published within the turn of the century. The sources contain a wide variety of authors and institutions. Many of the links work.

The article is well organized and broken down into clear and concise categories.

The article contains many images that are captioned and cited that help enhance the reader's understanding of the material.

The talk page includes discussions about the formatting and information within the article. The article is part of a WikiProject called Marine Life. All of the posts are signed.

The article appears to be finished by the editors, and has been given a Start-class rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. The article does a very good job of sharing a large variety of information with the reader. The article could maybe be improved by adding more information on other phyla such as tardigrades and lobopodia, rather than just mentioning them. Overall, I would say the article is well-developed.