User:Johnskad/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Lymphocyte homing receptor - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I have always found the immune system interesting, but difficult to understand at the same time, especially concerning localization and signaling. I should be able to learn a lot from this. It matters because the immune system is a ubiquitous target for pharmaceutical and medical research and is receiving increased interest following the COVID pandemic. My preliminary impression is that the article is slightly difficult to read and could use a few more definitions to start. I can tell the information is intriguing, but I would need to visit a good deal of extra pages to start to understand it.

Evaluate the article

 * The first paragraph is very good. The rest of the lead is also fairly good, though it may lack a reference or two.


 * The content is solid, though its sources are a bit dated. The mechanisms section is a bit confusing, it either needs to be rewritten or have a few clarifying figures added.


 * The tone is neutral.


 * There are only 6 sources, seemingly a bit sparse for the topic. Accordingly, some assertions are uncited.


 * The writing quality is good, but quite dense. It also seems a bit disjointed, like a collection of facts without enough linking to make it all fit together without multiple reads.


 * There are no figures.


 * The talk page is blank besides a recommendation to fix a source link.


 * It is an interesting topic to me, and I think it would be interesting to find a lot more sources to add to this page and really flush it out, with a few mechanism images and maybe a new section on clinical significance or the receptor structure/localization.