User:Kmbio/Evaluate an Article

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Guppy

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Evaluate the article
Overall, this article was well crafted. The sections on mating and reproduction are clearly neutral. No biases are represented, as should be the case for an online encyclopedia. In addition, the author seems to have compiled a reliable list of sources overall. Many of the sources listed are from scientific journals rather than sketchy websites, and date to the 2000s-2010s (with some exceptions), which seems current and trustworthy. These two sections also read well overall, laying out information in a way that most people would be able to follow and understand, and including hyperlinks for specific vocabulary.

However, there are areas that could be improved. Determining section breakdown was a bit confusing. Reproduction has a large general section, and then a tiny subsection specifically regarding inbreeding depression. There is already mention of inbreeding depression in the section on mating (subsection: inbreeding avoidance), so this seems repetitive and unnecessary. The extra detail could have been noted with the other information on inbreeding, or mentioned in the general reproductive section for clarity. In addition, while citations are present, there are large gaps between some of them, which leads me to wonder if all of the information since the previous citation comes from the next citation, or if the author did not cite every detail properly. This makes me a bit wary of some of the facts that come far in advance of a citation; it would be better for the author to add more citations as they do have a rather long list of references to draw from.