User:Liorrco/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Centipede

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose the article on centipedes on a whim, but decided to evaluate it because centipedes seem like very interesting creatures and a good article to look through. I think the study of centipedes is important in the same way that the study of any lifeform is important: it can help us learn about the wonders of the world around us. My preliminary impression of the article is that it is very well sourced and in depth, and seems pretty neutral in tone.

Evaluate the article
It seems as though the information is relevant to the article, and nothing much distracted me besides the multiple hyperlinks in red. No information seems out of date, though, as previously mentioned, the red hyperlinks could be created into their own articles. Despite the fact that this is an article on centipedes, I do see that some information about how centipedes were used as food is under described, and I feel like there is more to say on that subject than what is there. Other than that, I don't see any large equity gaps. Maybe there could be more from historically underrepresented sources, like scientists? If there were more pictures on this article, I think the article would be improved. Each of the links I clicked worked, and each of them support the claims in the article; however, this does not mean that is true for all citations in this article. Each fact, from what I can tell, is referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference, and most information from scientific journals. Seeing as most of the references are from peer-reviewed scientific journals, I do not believe there is any bias to be found. It also seems as though each course comes from a diverse array of authors and publications, from what I can tell by the authors of these sources at least. There are two conversations on the talk page: What to do with Pleurostigmomorpha, and Proposed merge of Orders of centipedes into Centipede. The article is rated as a natural science good article. It is also a level-4 vital article and a GA-class. As far as I can tell, this article is not part of any WikiProjects. I guess we didn't talk about this topic in class, but I didn't understand that that was part of the assignment and its too late to change what article I chose for this assignment. In a way, Wikipedia discusses this topic very differently from the way we talked about it in class in the sense that we did not talk about it in class at all.