User:Msalas127/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Talk:Slime layer

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because both in this class and in food microbiology we have been discussing biofilms (more so in food microbiology) and it was one of the first things that came to my mind since it was discussed recently.

Evaluate the article
The writing needs to be cleaned up. There are a number of spelling and grammar mistakes that come up, making the article difficult to read and at some points, more ambiguous than it needs to be. Some of the sources are out of date, being from the 60s, 70s, and 90s, so having more up to date sources would increase confidence in utilizing the article. A large portion of the references need to be retyped because they have the retrieval dates of the articles and not when the article was actually published. At least 5 of the sources came from blog posts and therefore not reliable sources. There were a few from respected journals but the sheer number of unverified sources makes it difficult to take the article seriously. There is a single question about how the slime layer relates to the biofilm which was asked in 2008 and an update in 2020 with no answer on the talk page. There are no images and is rated at a C-level with a mid-importance rating. There does not appear to be any bias in the article one way or the other and remains neutral without sponsoring a particular company or product.~