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Evaluation of the article Pedaliaceae

 * Name of article: Pedaliaceae (Pedaliaceae)
 * I chose this article to evaluate because it has very little information on the plant family it is about, and only one reference for the entire article. It is an article I would be interested in improving throughout this semester.

Lead Evaluation
The Lead of this article does include a sentence which sums up some information about the plant family and the order to which the family belongs. The article has no major sections, so the lead does not include brief descriptions of what would be the article's major sections. Since the lead seems to make up the article in its entirety, it includes a lot of information not present in the rest of the article. The lead is relatively concise.

Content Evaluation
The article lacks any additional content not provided by the lead, and goes into no detail about its subject, the Pedaliaceae plant family. It as not been updated since 2018 and the only source cited is from 2009. This article would most accurately be considered a "stub" article

Tone and Balance Evaluation
The article is written in a neutral tone, but cannot truly be considered a neutral article due to the lack of diversifying views or even additional sourcing. Though the Lead states a family once considered part of the Pedaliaceae family (the Martyniaceae family) is now considered to be phylogenetically separate due to several studies, the article provides no additional references for these multiple studies, nor the original classification of the Martyniaceae family. Only one source(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x) is referenced for both of these statements. Since only one source is mentioned, that source's information would be considered overrepresented and any information outside of that source is underrepresented. The article does not appear to be attempting to sway a reader's opinion. It is just not giving enough information for the reader to truly form an opinion or become knowledgeable about the Pedaliaceae family.

Sources and References Evaluation
The one source cited does appear to be reliable, and the link to the source does work. However, since only one source is listed the sources cannot be said to be thorough. There is much more literature available on this topic than what is sourced in this article.

Organization Evaluation
The little information provided is concise and decently written, though there are a few punctuation choices which could be changed for clarity. The article is not well organised as there is nothing more than a lead written. One way to start improving on the article would be to break the Lead's claims into separate sections and use those sections as building blocks for the larger article.

Images and Media Evaluation
The article does include images which provide the reader with examples of plants in the Pedaliaceae family, however not all of the images are well-captioned. A few images do not provide any link to their original sources. The images are laid out in a relatively appealing, if also uncreative, way.

Talk Page Evaluation
The only thing present in this article's talk page is a link to WikiProjects Plants and an invitation to go join further conversation there. There is no further conversation occurring on the talk page. This article is rated stub-class and of mid-importance in terms of Wikipedia plant articles. The way Wikipedia discusses this article is pretty much non-existent. The last time this talk page was edited was in 2013, which does differ from our training as the article's last edit was in 2018. It was stated in the training it is polite to say on the talk page what edits you are planning on making. Is that only true on articles with a high degree of traffic and editors?

Overall impressions
This article is an unfinished "stub" article. It does not have many strengths, though it does maintain a relatively neutral tone. Its strongest point is its lead as the rest of the article is practically non-existent. This article can be improved by the addition of more sources and expanding upon the points discussed in leads to fully flesh out the information available on this plant family. This article is extremely underdeveloped.

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 * Link to feedback: Talk:Pedaliaceae