User:Haleyferraris/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Isotope

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I remembered learning about isotopes in chemistry in high school and thought chemistry was very interesting so I wanted to refresh my memory.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

- The topic sentence is very short and can be more descriptive about what is going to be talked about in the article rather than just saying this article is about isotopes.

Content

- the content is relevant and current but there are some places where there could be more information. For example the section on isotopes vs nuclides just states the definitions of both but never really compares them.

- All the information is very relative and helpful for the reader to understand isotopes and how they are applied in nature.

Tone and Balance

- This article is neutral evenjhough this isn't really a topic that can have a bias

Sources and References

-the sources have a range from 1910 - 2020 which is good because with science there is always new information.

-the sources are credible, I clicked on a few and they were from collaborated textbooks, encyclopedias, and research papers from many doctors of chemistry.

Organization

-I think that this is very well organized, but personally I would have the section about isotopes in nature before radioactive isotopes because I think how isotopes are applied in nature would be more relevant to most readers.

Images

-there are a lot of graphs and tables but not many pictures so I would suggest putting in more pictures of the atomic structure of different isotopes.

Talk Page

-This article is a level 4 vital article with a C-Class rating

-The talk page has discussions about what the author needed to add more of, such as explaining the importance of half-life more thoroughly so that readers can understand it better and how it works.

-The talk page suggests edits which is what we will be doing in our articles so this is very important to listen to.

Overall Impressions

- I though the article was very well organized and it really refreshed my brain about isotopes

-I think that the article was written from people who have a background in science and there might be some things that could be explained better or given a definition to since not everyone that will be reading this will already know what an isotope is.

- I would say that it is well developed because there is a good amount of information but there could also be some more.