User:Ncsucom436student/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
David Attenborough

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because Sir David Attenborough is a very influential figure in the environmental and natural sciences. I believe he has done great work to make room for environmental communication in the media.

Evaluate the article
 Lead Section 

The lead section is concise and has good information for if someone were to need to quickly look up who sir David Attenborough is and some of his accomplishments. Which is the goal of the lead section. It doesn't contain any information that isn't expanded on later on.

 Content 

The content is well organized and it up to date, it is very thorough and expands on various aspects of his career.

 Tone and Balance 

The general tone was neutral and information was presented in an unbiased way. Any discussion of his personal views on things (religion, etc) were mostly done through quotes for sir David Attenborough himself.

 Sources and References 

All claims were backed up by a link or reference to another source.

 Organization and Writing Quality 

I did not notice any grammatical or spelling errors, and the writing and organization or the article was done very well and made sifting through the information easy.

 Images and Media 

All images have links to where they were taken from, they have specific details on what is being depicted, and they are all pertinent to what is being written about in the article in that section.

 Talk Page Discussion 

the article was rated as being a good article and a level 4-vital article. Some discussions were about potential edits that need to be made, especially regarding some of the information provided in the box at the beginning.''' Overall Impressions '''

Overall, because this article is so of a well known figure in science media and communication, there has been much attention on this article and many edits have been made. This makes for a very well made and thorough article.