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Article Evaluation: Plankton

 * 1) As far as I could see everything in this article is relevant to the topic at hand. The section on the word's origin and the proper grammar was maybe longer than needed though.
 * 2) The article is neutral, it tries to stick to only stating facts, only wandering from this in small areas with no heavy bias (i.e. mention both sides, or gave references).
 * 3) There are very few viewpoints in general in this article (mainly facts) as such no viewpoints on the topics listed were over or under represented.
 * 4) The few citation links I checked work, and lead to reliable sources that support the statement that they are cited on. However, #10 might be a bit of a stretch, as the paper cited doesn't necessarily support the statement explicitly (i.e. it is focused on one area but this is not mentioned in the statement).
 * 5) There are many areas that I feel need to be backed up with more sources. but overall the facts that are cited are from a reliable and neutral source (mainly scientific journals in the case of this article).
 * 6) The information is not out of date, but the page would definitely benefit from a section on abundance, and maybe even a section on how some of the data is collected and sources of uncertainty as well as many others but this is a good start.
 * 7) There are many conversations going on in the talk page, many of which are discussing missing information and how the article needs to be longer for such vital topic. There is also some threads about the layout with a significant one discussing the layout of the images on the page.
 * 8) The article is rated as a C class, meaning it requires substantial work before it is considered complete. It is involved in three wikiprojects: Geology/Cambrian, Ecology, and Biology.
 * 9) The difference between this article and how we talked about plankton in class is that this article is a broad and shallow overview of plankton, whereas in class we discussed specific plankton and delved much more into the details (i.e. a little bit narrower but much deeper).

Bacterioplankton article: planned contributions
We plan editing the wikipedia article for bacterioplankton which is currently just a stub. We will attempt to add information on the different sizes, trophic levels, and global distribution of the bacterioplankton. Furthermore we would like to add information about the different roles that bacterioplankton play in biogeochemical cycling, and examples of prominent bacterioplankton in the world's oceans. Lastly we would like to discuss abundance as well as physiology of the different prominent bacterioplankton. The above does not necessarily reflect the structure or content of the final article however and things may change.

Working Bibliography
1. Ghai, R, Mizuno, CM, Picazo, A, Camacho, A, Rodriguez-Valera, F. 2013. Metagenomics uncovers a new group of low GC and ultra-small marine Actinobacteria. Scientific Reports. 3:2471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02471.

2. Giovannoni, SJ. 2017. SAR11 Bacteria: The Most Abundant Plankton in the Oceans. Annual Review of Marine Science. 9:231-255. doi: 10.1146/annurev-marine-010814-015934.

3. POMMIER, T, CANBÄCK, B, RIEMANN, L, BOSTRÖM, KH, SIMU, K, LUNDBERG, P, TUNLID, A, HAGSTRÖM, Å. 2007. Global patterns of diversity and community structure in marine bacterioplankton. Mol. Ecol. 16:867-880. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03189.x. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03189.x.

4. Bunse, C, Pinhassi, J. 2017. Marine Bacterioplankton Seasonal Succession Dynamics. Trends in Microbiology. 25:494-505. doi: //doi-org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/10.1016/j.tim.2016.12.013. http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/science/article/pii/S0966842X16302190.