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Lead section

 * It clearly introduces the definition of the braided river in the first sentence, and I can know it will introduce many contents about the braided river.
 * It includes a contents table and briefly summary for the major section.
 * Everything in the lead section has mentioned in the article.
 * The lead is concise and has a clear logic.

Content

 * The article's content is relevant to the topic. Especially the formation of the braided river.
 * The content is new because it was last edited on February, however, by looking through its references, most of them are 10 or 20 year before.
 * Basically, it is introducing the braided river it self, but it will be good to introduce how it will create habitats for animals and how it related with human life.

Tone and Balance

 * It has a neutral point of view, they don't have heavily biased toward toward a particular point of view. Mostly are introducing geometric factors and biased towards popular science.
 * There are no viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented.
 * Minority or fringe viewpoints are not be mentioned.
 * The article doesn't try to lead the people agree with a certain point of view.

Sources and References

 * The secondary source of information provide the reliable support to the article.
 * The sources are thorough.
 * Most of the sources are not current.
 * The sources are written by different people and perspectives. It cannot be determined whether the individuals is marginalized.
 * There are better source to explain braided river.
 * The links work well and I can see the original articles.

Organization and writing quality
The writing should be clear and professional, the content should be organized sensibly into sections.


 * It is concise, clear, and easy to read.
 * I don't find any grammatical or spelling errors.
 * The article is organized because it has clear structure, it is not well-organized because it can add more information about the braided river and human activity.

Images and Media

 * It includes many images that enhance understanding of the topic.
 * All the images are well-captioned with their name and picture description.
 * No all the images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations, but some of them contain the link as their picture description.
 * The images laid out in a visually appealing way.

Talk page discussion
The article's talk page — and any discussions among other Wikipedia editors that have been taking place there — can be a useful window into the state of an article, and might help you focus on important aspects that you didn't think of.


 * The conversations are talking about the article itself, and giving suggestion on how to represent this topic.
 * Braided river is a level-5 vital article and this article is rated as B-class. It is within the scope of WikiProject Rivers.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? They discuss each parts of the articles and many links for article(evidences) are provided directly.

Overall impressions

 * It is a good to provide common sense knowledge as a science popular science articles.
 * Its strengths is provide clear and understandable knowledge to the public. And many images provide the example to help to understand.
 * It can provide more historical information of the braided river.
 * The article is well-developed and it is underdeveloped.

Examples of good feedback
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Which article are you evaluating?
Braided River

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I have some basic knowledge about the braided river, it is matter as it related with the watershed, and I learned some new knowledge from this article.

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