User:Neuron2000/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Agouti-related peptide

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
They're pretty important for appetite regulation, which I'm interested in, and I wanted to see its representation on wiki so far. My initial impression is that it looks pretty short.

Evaluate the article
The lead is pretty concise, but I think it's good in that it gets right to the point. No information present that isn't present in the article, but there is stuff in the article that isn't in the lead.

The content is pretty lacking - there's a lot of things we know about AGRP that aren't in this article, but it is written from a neutral point of view. The links work, but the studies are pretty old - there are many new papers coming out about these neurons that could be better suited in this article.

The writing is a bit dense, but it is a pretty dense subject. However, I think that it could still benefit from someone writing for a more general audience. The images are helpful, but I would add some graphs to talk about its behavioral effects.

The talk page is interesting, but not really that relevant - it's mostly just focused on why the peptide is named after a particular mouse.

Overall, I think this article needs a lot of work; it's not that it's inaccurate, it just needs to be updated to talk about scientists' more recent findings on how neurons expressing this peptide affect feeding behavior.