User:Lluviosa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Asthma-related microbes - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article due to personal interest. I believe that it matters because it provides a different angle to attack asthma from and to help potentially rid us of non-atopic asthma. My preliminary impression of it was that there was a lot of key information that I could take away from it and could continue to search out if I felt the need to go more in depth in my research of the topic.

Evaluate the article
The article does a good job of mapping out the information in the lead section and breaking down the topics and items of interest. In the lead section there is mention of RSV's and that they do have an impact on childhood asthma, however it is not detailed later on in the article. I am not sure if it is needed because the correlation with RSV and asthma decreases with age, but there is not a corresponding source to confirm that. There is a detailed description of the types of asthma, however it does not go too in depth on the matter.

The content in the body of the article all seems to be relevant to the topic, up to date, and not heavy on one section. There is the missing element about RSV in the content. And the tone and balance all seem to be neutral and without an agenda.

The references are from a mixture of reliable sources including medical journals, PubMed, and microbiology reviews. However, I did find a link to a source that is no longer active, and it is from an open access to dissertations and theses, source number 6.

As far as the writing style goes, it is clear and easy to follow along with. It is free from grammatical errors and well organized. ￼

There is a lack of images that could possibly lead to a better understanding of some of the topics, however the two images available are visually appealing and enhance understanding. The first image is not captioned, it does have numbered arrows pointing at certain aspects of the image but gives no definition as to what they are pointing to.

This article has a C-Class rating and is part of the Wiki Project Microbiology. Most of the discussion that is in the talk page is in regard to missing some information that is potentially important and the organization of the taxonomy and some of the microbes listed.

My impression is that the article is a basic break down of information. It does not go too in depth in the correlation between certain microbes and asthma. It allows for a good basis of research and understanding. I think that it is somewhat underdeveloped and that there is room for improvement, one being the images.