User:JLeigh59/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Luciferin

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have an interest in bioluminescence and this topic has applications in medical research. This is because it allows for detection of expressed genes by marking attached genes with bioluminescence if the genes are expressed, I thought it was a solid article that was able to tell me what I wanted to know.

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.)

Lead

The lead concisely describes the articles topic as well briefly mentions the major sections of the article. It also does mention a reaction it typically undergoes and does not mention it later in the article.

Content

The content is relevant to the topic as well as being up to date. None of the information on the page seems out of date.

Tone and Balance

The tone is neutral and sticks to the facts, there are no claims to any particular stance. It does not try to persuade the viewer to feel a certain way.

Sources and References

Most but not all of the facts and paragraphs have citations with them. The sources include a diverse group of people and are as old as 40 years and as recent as within 5 years. All of the links for the sources work.

Organization and writing quality

The article is very well written. I could not catch any grammatical errors and it was organized in a clear, easy to read way.

Images and Media

All of the images add to the quality of the page and are captioned adequately and appropriately. None of the images violate copyright.

Talk page discussion

The talk page has not had any discussion in many years but when there was discussion about whether or not it was a pigment was discussed. The article is apart of the wiki project for molecular biology.

Overall impressions

The article is adequate as it stands - nearly complete. It's strength is in it's conciseness and easy to follow structure. The article is short and can be expanded upon especially in the "Usage in science" topic which is where most of the issues with the article occur.