User:Mereheterotroph/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
DPANN

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
''I chose the DPANN article to see how well it was written about. Archaea are fairly new in microbiology so most of their research is fairly recent. Archaea may not be written about extensively in once place, so having a Wikipedia page allows what information there is to be compiled and accessible. It looks like a well-written article that overviews the superphylum and notes some ecology of Archaea within this group.''

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section is detailed and covers the phylogenetic basics of this group well. The lead does mention 'novel signs of horizontal gene transfer' which is not mentioned or discussed in the body of the article. The image is relevant and captioned well. In the Talk page a contributor has a good suggestion to modify the lead to be more understandable, and does mention that the references should be checked to validate uncertainty mentioned in DPANN's taxonomy. The edits are all recent from earlier this year to August. The papers are mostly recent, up to 2021. As more research is conducted the article can be expanded on but due to the specificity of the topic that could take more time.