User:Haidynstewart22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Natural history

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as natural history and prehistoric creatures fascinate me. I really appreciate how our understanding of the world. evolution and even ourselves has drastically changed as a result of natural discoveries. This topic is important for people to understand as the fossil record presents a physical history to our planet that can be interpreted differently with time. The article was shorter than I would have anticipated and does not include many modern ideas past the 19th century. This information is often verifiable by primary sources.

Evaluate the article
The lead is very descriptive of natural history and is concise, although, the lead does not reference many of the other sections. The article seems to stop updating ideas past Darwin and lots of natural history breakthroughs have occurred since then. With as many sources as are provided, more information following Darwin should be available.

The article showed an informative tone with concise, organized writing. The sections are split up in a sensical way with related pictures to improve the reading. This article could be improved by updating it for the modern day and by possibly branch out into topics such as paleontology to cover other ideas in the field to get a more complete picture. The talk page describes edits done in order to remove excessive information that was not specific to the topic, such as a specific natural history museum.