User:Rloli/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Apatite

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 it was the one of the few that was remotely related to this class.

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 article mostly stays on topic, but does wander a bit; such as where it suggests that Apatite is being looked at as a storage medium for nuclear waist without giving a source for this information. Most of the information in this article is still quite relevant; however there are several cited facts that are quite obscure and generally not well known, but they are being discussed in the talk section and are being considered for removal. The tone of the article stays neutral and avoids over and underrepresentation. The sources of this article do come from an array of different places such as textbooks, mineral databases, journals, and magazine articles. However magazine articles can be considered unreliable since they generally are written with a bias; and mindat, the mineral database that this article sites, has people and companies that sponsor different pages, including the page that is referenced. The writers of this article do not reference the possible bias of these sources. The Talk page for this article has a few talking points about confusions involving the use of certain information and citations, as well as the checking of certain math equations and answers. Currently this page is rated as C-class and listed as a level-5 vital article.