User:Joh19094/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Phosphorus cycle

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
We talked about it briefly in class (or at least some of the principles of P-limited growth). It seemed like a good article to tackle because I understand some of it from prior classes but can also lean on what we talked about in class this semester.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

This was a good lead section. I thought that the first paragraph did a good job introducing the phosphorus cycle in the context of (and in comparison with) other biogeochemical cycles. It's concise, and follows the outline of the article that's to come.

Content

The content is mostly good. There are some "maybe"s and "might"s that reference slightly older articles, so I'm wondering if those statements could be revised to see if there are updates on those uncertain questions.

Tone and balance

Nothing presented was terribly controversial. I didn't like the use of the word "devastating" in the last sentence before the "See also" section because it felt weighted and dramatic.

Sources and References

See Content section. Otherwise, sources look solid and academic.

Organization and writing quality

Some inconsistency in the capitalization on the word 'phosphorus.' Some inconsistency in whether or not numerical values are written as words or numerals.

Images and media

There were a couple words that weren't commonly known phrases that I feel like could be links to other pages. These were "effluent" and "Canadian Experimental Lakes Area."

Talk page discussions

The Wiki Education Foundation has gotten involved on this page (also why I'm here) but prior to that the most recent post in the talk page was from 2005. Not a lot of solid discussion happening recently.

Overall impressions

Solid article! Most of my critiques were minor.