User:Kat1220/Evaluate an Article

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Noris Salazar Allen

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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I have an interested in science and never had heard of Noris Allen. She contributed much to a very nuanced topic, though her article is lacking in details.

Evaluate the article
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Lead Section

The lead section provides a nice list of her accomplishments, though it seems to be nuanced and specific for how short the article actually is. There may be room to make the lead section more concise.

Content

The article has one main section with the bulk of the information in it. This information is titled "Biography." This section lacks any personal details about her life and only includes her accomplishments in work. There is also another section titled "Awards" though it only has one award in it. I feel this article could be reorganized. The article mainly provides information on her educational background and her accomplishments in the field. The article could then perhaps be reorganized to have one section discussing her background/education and the information on her accomplishment in work as well as the data point listed in the "Awards" section could be combined in another section.

Tone

The article is written in a neutral manner. Each of her accomplishments are listed in a concise manner. The article does not list any of her work that may be disputed or any problems that she had in her career, though, I am not knowledgable in this topic and she may not have ever faced any roadblocks.

Source and Reference

Everything that was written in the article was supported from a reliable source, especially as there are few sources out there written on Allen. My only critique would be that, at some points, they seemed to leave out interesting information provided by the source and include facts that may be less relevant. For instance, the quote, "Her supervisor was Dale Vitt, and her thesis focussed on the moss genus Leucophanes," reflects only a narrow part of what was demonstrated in that source. The article goes a little more indepth about her research and the people she worked with.

Checking the talk page

This article does not have a talk page and its revision page only includes minor edits to grammar.