User:PreoccupiedWarlock/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
[ Lipopolysaccharide]

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It has been mentioned in lecture for multiple classes and is an important part of the content in both courses.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

The article includes a good opening sentence, it is informative and concise. It gives an overview of what is included in the article with an appropriate amount of detail, but it does reference how the terms "endotoxin" and "LPS" are used without a citation.

Content:

The composition portion of the article is the only one that is explicitly about the subject that feels complete. The synthesis of the molecule is not thoroughly explained. The sections that have the most content are not specifically about LPS but its involvement in health issues. Most of the references are from the last 15 years, though some are more than 25 years old.

Tone and Balance:

Information about LPS and health issues seems to take a larger portion of the article than it should and they are not about LPS but rather the health issues, which should be addressed in articles of their own. Otherwise the article takes a neutral tone and simply gives information about the molecule.

Sources and References:

Links to the cited sources are functional. Most of them are current, some are 20+ years old.

Organization and Writing Quality:

When there is enough information it is easily to follow, there are however a couple of grammatical errors. The organization is good and has a reasonable flow between topics.

Images and Media:

Most of the images are well captioned and help in understanding the article. Two of them however are used as the only information for a section and are not sufficient. The layout of the images is fine.

Talk Page Discussions:

Most of the discussion was about whether to merge this article and another. It is a part of the Microbiology portion of WikiProject.

Overall Impressions:

It is a poorly developed article, the amount of useful information is outweighed by the information that is not useful. The lead section and beginning portions of the article are the strongest parts but as the article continues it quickly deteriorates in quality.