User:Olivia.Charlop/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mimic octopus

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose the mimic octopus because I found it very interesting after being showed it in class. I think it is an amazing invertebrate that can do extraordinary things to camouflage and hide from predators, but also to hunt prey. My preliminary impression was that this article talks about its characteristics and describes more of what it does and looks like.

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.)

Lead Section:

- The lead includes a beginning sentence that says where it can be found. I feel like more could be added to this it include like what it mainly does.

- Yes, the lead does include a brief description of what the rest of the article talks about such as its habitat and how it appears.

- I do not think it does include extra information that is not included in the rest of the article.

- I think it is concise. It went straight to the point of what it is and did not use fluff or extra things not needed to explain it.

Content

- Yes, its content is relevant as it talks about all the mimicry and camouflage that the octopus does and its environment.

- This article was edited just a few days ago, so it could be up to date on the information if it was just edited.

- I do think there are things not included that are necessary. For the most part the article is not extremely so I feel like there could be way more added to this like maybe more about tracking it and see what scientific articles have on it as well.

- No, I do not believe it deals with the equity gap.

Tone and balance

- Yes, I would say its from a neutral stand. There are not political points or other things that could sway someone one way or another. This article is about an animal so it should not be political and sway people.

Sources and References

- Yes, the facts and information used are backed up with 9 sources. Each source is related to the topic which is also good to make sure. For the most point the sources are mostly current. One was found in 2001 so could find something more up to date but others from 2013 and 2012. Yes there are a diverse spectrum of authors and the sources doe work when you click on them. However, after clicking the links and looking further some of the references are very short and there could be better scientific article used to reference.

Organization and quality

- I would say the quality is fairly good. It is broken down into sections and I did not notice any huge grammatical errors. The paragraphs are relatively short so it is easier to read and understand them.

Images and media

- Yes, there are 3 images that enhance the article by showing what the mimic octopus can change into. It helps to be able to physically see how it changes than just imagine it when there is evidence on it. The images are layed out in a visually appealing way and follow the wikipedia guidelines. I feel like more could be add to the captions for them instead of saying it has this pattern or it has this pattern. Add on like what animal it is mimicking maybe.

Talk page

- After reading through the talk page, I noticed that many people have added other citations for things mentioned and that more images with better descriptions should be added. It is rated as a C article and has a high importance on the project scale and it a Wikiproject for Cephalopods.

Overall impressions

- Overall, I think the status can be improved even more than it has been already. As mentioned in the talk part about, I think more descriptive images can be added and more relevant sources for more information on the mimic octopus. The article does already have some great information included which is very strong but I think since the references used are several years ago there are probably more things out there that have been discovered about this organism. It has a high importance so I think that is it not fully developed and more could be added to it.

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