User:Psychstudent20/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Ethology - Wikipedia

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.)

Since this course primarily covers the Psychology of Animals, I figured it was best to start with the core concept of Ethology. this article matters since if this article had any problems with it, it would most likely have a ripple effect to more specific concepts in covering Animal Behavior. Also if this concept was lacking in any information, this would be a good place to link the information to. My first impression of the article is that it is really well laid out with multiple different sections adding more information to the topic, but i noticed some sections were much smaller like Tinbergen;s four questions, which is an important cornerstone of animal behavior.

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.)

The lead section is very well detailed and lays out the foundation for the rest of the article with a clear definition of Ethology while also staying on topic with concise information that is more flushed out in the following sections. The content in general is very relevant and detailed, but some sections have little information on a topic or just redirect you to another Wikipedia page, instead of providing much information as to how it is related to the topic at hand. The tone of the article seems to be neutral with no attempts to sway readers towards certain stances. the references seem to be primarily of 21st century articles from academic journals, one reference though just lead me to a website so I am unsure how reliable it is. While looking through, there was multiple instances where there were "citations needed" throughout the article and some cases of where it was not already pointed out, which leads to a question of its reliability at times. The article was well written with multiple different sections for different topics. The images were related to the topic and well captioned although more pictures for some topics could aid the article. The articles talk page seems quite active with multiple users sharing their thoughts on what to add to the page along with ways to clear up confusion in the topic. Overall, the article seems quite well written with multiple different sections of information that lead to many more diverse and specific topics, the article seems very well written and with a few minor changes and additions to its references and lack of information in certain areas, the article would be able to grow even more.