User:Pleighs/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

Genetic diversity

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 this article, because I felt it was relevant to the content being discussed in my comparative developmental biology course. It is important to understand how organisms develop and evolve over time to give the genetic diversity that can be seen today. The article gives a good explanation of how genetic diversity results from different phenomenon (adaptation, mutation, etc) and provides a baseline for how the theories surrounding these phenomenon were developed.

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:

- topic is stated and defined in first sentence

-concise, clear, descriptive, and informative

- does not preface all information/sections to follow

Content:

- genetic diversity, the causes of genetic diversity, and the theories behind it were all throughly explained

Tone and Balance:

-article remains neutral and factual

Sources and References:

-34 resources from a wide variety of reliable sources

-current and older sources cites

-all links work

-sources seem to serve the topic well

Organization and Writing Quality:

-article is written very well

- first sentence does not have parallel structure (looks like an incomplete sentence)

Images and Media

-helpful graphics are present

- it might look better if 2 of the 4 graphics were placed on the left side of the screen instead of all being on the right side

Talk Page Discussion

-on the talk page, wiki users argued about the definition of genetic variability, which was ultimately agreed up and changed

-someone made a suggestion to included some examples of species with low genetic diversity, etc.

-article is rated c-class

Overall Impression

-the article was well written and compiled information for reliable resources

-it was written in a way that made it comprehensible to the average person

-the article was well developed

-it has been edited for around 10 years, so it has had much time to be improved