User:Jjuliajungg/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Algal bloom

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article is related to the EOSC 475 course content as algal blooms are relevant to marine microbiology. This article matters because algal blooms affect the marine ecosystem and is a result of processes like runoff into the ocean. My preliminary impression is that the article is well-organized and structured. The article flows well in a logical matter.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

- it is concisely and clearly describes algal blooms and how they affect the ecosystem as well as how algal blooms occur.

- it does not have a brief description of the article's major section.

Content:

- article is relevant to the topic

- content up to date

- it does not explicitly address topics about historically underrepresented populations

Tone and Balance:

- article is neutral, not biased, no heavy lean on viewpoints that would skew point of views.

- article does not attempt to push reader towards a side.

Sources:

- some sources are recent and some are from 1989 for example.

- sources are diverse

- links work

Organization and writing quality:

- article is well written and organized, but there should be a brief mention of main topics of the remainder of the article in the lead section.

Images and Media:

- images are sufficient for understanding but some images can be more relevant

- captions are good for the images

- images are laid out in an appealing way: not too many to distract the eye but enough to keep reader engaged while reading the article.

Talk page discussion:

- some cleaning up of the article formatting discussions

- some double checking of adding information is being discussed

- the article is rated B-class and is a part of algae, fisheries and fishing, environment, oceans, limnology and oceanography, and scuba diving wikiprojects.

- Wikipedia discusses this topic similarly but also much more in detail than our class as it expands to other sectors of the marine environment and how it affects the systems that affect human in different ways as well.

Overall impressions:

- article's overall status complies with wikipedia

article's strength is the lead section that concisely and clearly describes algal blooms within the first few sentences

- article can be improved with a description of what the rest of the article will be about (and include in the lead section).

- the article is well-developed and detailed