User:Leafcutter Ant/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mark and recapture

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I navigated to the Ecology Wikiproject, and singled in on the article on Mark and Recapture not only because it covered what we have discussed it in our course, but it is rated "Start-class" and "Top Importance" by the members of the project. I hoped that it would be educational to evaluate an article related to the topic of Ecology and Environment that is just in beginning stages.

Evaluate the article
The lead paragraph provides a simple and straight-to-the-point explanation of mark-recapture, but more should be added to preface all of the sections discussed in the article. The content of the article focuses mostly on the various statistical estimators that scientists use in mark-recapture studies, but this is not foreshadowed in the intro. Additionally, the intro focuses heavily on applications in ecology and epidemiology, but there lacks a section that explores these applications in more detail. The content of the article could include many more specific examples of mark-recapture studies done in scientific fields, and it could also benefit by including more work done by scientists on the subject post-2010.

The article is also in need of more reliable and current sources. Near the end of the article, there is an uncited line that reads: "The literature on the analysis of capture-recapture studies has blossomed since the early 1990s." However, no literature is mentioned, nor is that somewhat opinionated claim referenced. The images of tagging typically used on animals are great, but it would be great to have graphics which explain the process of mark-recapture more visually. The article is well-written, but the organization could be improved -- there are very long sections followed by others that are bare bones and consist of only a sentence or two. The Talk Page for the article is also quite involved and sophisticated, but it does not seem to have been updated since 2019, indicating that the page is in need of some updating —Leafcutter Ant (talk) 18:54, 30 September 2021 (UTC)