User:Keatchison/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I am evaluating the Africanized Honey Bees page because it is adjacent to the endangered species I am interested in.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The Africanized honey bees are an extremely invasive species that is thought to be heavily impacting the Mojave poppy bee which is the page that I am building for this class. They further connect to this class because they are a highly successful invasive species and they interact with European honey bees, through this interaction they can hybridize the genome.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section: I think that this does a decent Job of introducing the topic however it doesn't necessarily lead into the other sections, no description or list of what it covers.

Content: I think that this article (especially the history section) is poorly cited. It has some outdated visuals and information. There is some sections that I think could have either been blended together to flow more easily or separated out, like I think there should be a whole section on the hybridization of the genomes between the African species and the European species but this is mostly mentioned in passing. I am currently writing an essay about this topic and so I think I am being overly nit-picky.

Tone and Balance: the tone and balance is neutral and clear.

Organization, writing quality: I noted that there is some organization issues in this article that I think could use some tweaking however the writing quality is clear and easy to follow.\

Images & Media: I think the images included are utilized well and provide clarity, even if one is slightly outdated (2003 map).

Talk and discussions: The Africanized bee is level 4 vital in biology, therefore it is a wikiproject. There is some discussion on the talk page, with the most recent being in November 2022, one of which is about the outdated map, proposing replacing it, however at the time of this discussion there was no suitable replacement (free and copyright-free). There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about the differences of wasps vs. honeybees.

Overall impression: I think this article could use some general tweaking or have someone sit down and work on flow, I also think that some up to date studies would be smart. it does look like there are people actively trying to fix some of these issues (it was last edited on Jan 24th)