User:Jmazzaro2020/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Positional Sequencing

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 it was listed as a top-priority stub-level article in the WikiProject for Molecular Biology/Genetics. I also picked it because it was about a method of DNA sequencing that I had never heard of, which interested me and made me want to look into it further.

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.)

The article meets all of the requirements of a lead section and was written with a clear and professional writing style, however, it is incomplete, as it only has the lead section finished. In the second paragraph of the lead section, the author brings up multiple topics that could be discussed in further detail. These topics could be used to form the major sections of the completed article. This article cites two sources, including an article from GenomeWeb and a US Patent Application. The news article was written in 2017, and the patent application was from 2012, so they are not the most recent, but also not outdated. The news article required a subscription to view, and the link to the patent did not work, making it difficult to determine if the information given in the Wikipedia article was backed up by these sources. Also, it would be better to use a peer-reviewed paper about positional sequencing, rather than an article that talks about the research.