User:PlantLady21/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Competition (biology)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen to evaluate this article because it is about animal behaviours, which is relevant to the material being taught in biology 3750.

Evaluate the article
This article is very informative about its topic, and also easy to read. The lead section includes a concise introductory sentence and gives a brief description of the topic.

Although the article is well organized into major sections that talk about the main parts of the article such as "By mechanism", "By taxonomic relationship", etc., I would take out the "By" part of the headings as they don't make much sense. Instead, the headings of each section could just state "Mechanisms", or "Taxonomic relationships", and include the relevant information for each sections respectively.

The content of the article is all relevant to the topic, Competition (Biology), and is well organized and concise throughout the article. The article is written in a neutral point of view All references are taken from scholarly articles which is ideal, but the citations within the article need some work. Citations are needed in sections "By mechanism", "By size asymmetry", and "By taxonomic relationship".

There are four images in this article, which are relevant to the material and are well captioned. The only issue is that they do not seem to be cited very well, which needs to be improved.

The talk page of this article is somewhat active. There seems to be only one conversation that went on between other editors, about the opening sentence of the article. The article has been rated a level-4 vital article, Start-class on the quality scale, and as Top-importance on the importance scale. The article is also a part of the WikiProject Ecology, and the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation supported course assignment.

Overall, the article is very informative and organized so far, but is definitely still underdeveloped and in need of some work. The citations and references are the biggest issue that needs to be fixed. The missing citations within the article need to be added, and the photos in the article need to be sourced and cited.