User:Jules Atticus/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Calming signals

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as I have always loved dogs and trying to figure out what they are trying to communicate. This article starts of good but by the end there is not much information about each topic.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is good in the fact that it introduces the topic well and it mentioned who named the term. It also sets up article for the subtopics to follow. The article lead mentions that there are three types of calming signals (auditory, visual, and olfactory), however, in the article it only mentions two of the three types. While many examples are given of visual calming signals and a few auditory it does not list any olfactory. The article also doesn't have the calming signals organized in a way that lines up with the types of signals, rather they are in there more so based on the quantity of information. The first half of the calming signals are covered in a decent amount of detail (it could use some more) but the latter topics need more information. The tone of this article is what one would expect and look for in a Wikipedia article. There is no clear point of view and there is no first person in the text. It does not appear to have sources that are from peer-reviewed articles, rather from people who work with dogs as a trainer or a person who studies the behaviour of dogs. Though the sources do appear to support what is said in the text. With all likelihood there are better sources that could be used in addition to the ones that are already listed. The organization of the article is mostly good (aside from what I mentioned earlier). There aren't any obvious grammar mistakes. Most of the images used in the article appear to be ones the author took of their own dogs. They do fit with what the article is talking about and are captioned well. There is almost nothing in the talk page on this article and it has been nominated for deletion. I believe that with some work this article could be really useful and done well. There needs to be more information added from different sources to make this article stronger and more accurate.