User:Marissa4113/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I will be reviewing this article on provenance, focusing only on the seed provenance portion of the article.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article (and particularly the seed provenance section) because it is an important topic for restoration efforts that is becoming increasingly relevant as we face the climate crisis, and the associated losses of biodiversity. I noticed that this section of seed provenance was a very brief introduction to the topic, and needed to be greatly expanded upon as it did not explore the multiple techniques of seed provenance and their potential applications.

Lead Section:
Since I am reviewing a section of a greater topic, this section lacked a lead section for the most part. It does a good job of concisely defining the topic and provides a very brief overview of the topic. However, it immediately delves into greater details; I think it would be beneficial for this lead section to provide a brief description of the types of provenance (eg local provenancing), and have later sections that expand on this.

Content:
The article section's content is a little unbalanced, focused primarily on the views of ecologists and evolutionary biologists on provenancing. It does also touch briefly on a type of provenancing technique. Overall, this section needs to be greatly expanded in the types of seed provenancing, the scientific theories behind them, and their applications in restoration as they have been used in more recent developments. Additionally, this article does not touch on the political relevance to seed provenancing.

Tone and Balance:
This article's section is not necessarily neutral. Although local provenancing is the preferred approach to seed provenancing, this article essentially states that using local seed is best, and will prevent outbreeding depression. While this view has been the preferred approach to restoration, there are a number of provenancing techniques that have been used in recent development; this article's section would be more well-rounded and neutral if it also expanded on other types of provenancing as well.

Sources and References:
The majority of facts stated in this article are backed up by sources. However, the majority of these sources cited are older; with only one of these sources being published within the last ten years. Additionally, these sources do not fully represent the range of views in the available literature of the topic of seed provenancing; the cited sources focus almost entirely on concepts related to seed provenancing (e.g. outbreeding depression), but does not represent literature focused on seed provenancing. The implementation of literature published directly related to seed provenancing may help this article be more well-rounded, accurate, and up to date.

Organization and Writing Quality:
This article's section is well-written as it concise, easy to read, and doesn't have any grammatical or spelling errors. However, the organization of this section could be greatly improved since it exists as one entire section. If this topic were to become it's own article, the organization would be greatly improved if it were broken down into smaller sections.

Images and Media:
This article does not contain any images.

Talk Page Discussion:
There are not any talk page discussions regarding the seed provenancing section of this article. Additionally, there are no ratings related to the science portion of the article. However, most of the other disciplines/topics are rated for this article, all receiving a C-class rating.

Overall Impressions:
Overall, this article section is a good, brief overview of the topic of seed provenancing; it clearly and concisely defines the topic for anyone who is wanting to know. I think what needs to be improved most in this article is increasing the amount of information in it so that it is a more complete overview of the topic, such as integrating a more well-rounded view of different provenance techniques and the views/theories behind it. Additionally, this article needs to integrate much more up-to-date sources to reflect more recent developments in seed provenancing and restoration.