User:Nmorgan5/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Chromosome abnormality

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose the article about chromosome abnormalities because I am deeply interested by biology specifically as it pertains to the practice of medicine and one of the most interesting studies of medicine to me revolves around genetic diseases. This article is important because it provides a basis for types of genetic disease specifically pertaining to issues with a person's chromosomes. My initial reaction to this article is that it provides a good wealth of information but it is not a perfect article meaning that it could benefit from some more information.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of the article overall presents a good starting point to introduce the topic of chromosome abnormalities. I do think that the first sentence could be rewritten into a more clear statement because it currently just lists multiple different names for chromosome abnormalities and it sounds very wordy and without a clear purpose. I do think that it sounds concise in presenting an overview of what the article will talk about but I also think it would benefit from some rewording and restructuring of the sentences and thoughts.

Each section that the article seeks to speak about has a good bit of information, but I do think it could possibly include more. One thing the article as a whole could benefit from is some more pictures, data tables, charts, etc. The current ones would probably not make a lot of sense to someone without a previous knowledge of types of chromosome abnormalities as they are not labeled as well as they could be in my opinion. The captions for the current images do a good job of telling what the image is supposed to portray, but the image itself does not explain what it is trying to depict, so I believe better images might be able to be chosen for the article or the current ones could use some updating.

In one sentence of the section on inheritance the term "de novo" is used and is a hyperlink to another article, but the term is not explained. I do not know if it is wikipedia style to include the hyperlink but not explain the meaning, but this phrase is not one that I understand and in the context of the sentence it's in its hard to pull a meaning for the term.

The article is well-written in the way that I did not detect any grammatical errors and the information is presented in a manner that breaks down the topic in a step-by-step sequence. When visiting the talk page of the article I did see that it is labeled as a vital article, but that it is also labeled as start-class and I think that is a fair judgment of the article. It is not a perfect example of what a wikipedia article should look like, but it is not a bad article by any means. The talk page also shows where someone started to work on some kind of table to better showcase the information in the article, but it seems that it did not make it to the article itself, and the last message was left in 2011 so a writer has not visited this page in a while to work on it.