User:Sasonj/Evaluate an Article

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Vancouver Island marmot

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I chose this article because it is related to our course content and I felt comfortable enough with this topic to compose an evaluation.

Evaluate the article
Overall, this article is well developed and provides just enough content. A few points and suggestions are:


 * The Lead section flows nicely, although I found the following sentence to be awkwardly worded: "Although endemic to Vancouver Island, Marmota vancouverensis now also resides successfully at several captive breeding centres across Canada as well as several sites on Vancouver Island at which local extinction was observed during the 1990s." If keeping the sentence structure, "resides" could be written as reside and a comma would be needed, since it runs a bit long. An example: "Although endemic to Vancouver Island, Marmota vancouverensis now also reside successfully at several captive breeding centres across Canada, as well as several sites on Vancouver Island at which local extinction was observed during the 1990s."
 * The article switches from referring to the subject as the "Vancouver Island marmot" to "Marmota vancouverensis" multiple times. I would suggest keeping it consistent throughout the article, such as Vancouver Island marmot only, since Marmota vancouverensis is the secondary name in the Lead section.
 * For the second paragraph in the Description section, I believe a better source can be found for the 16th reference: "Nine things you didn't know about marmots". White Marmotte (15th ref when editing). A scholarly source might be better suited, this blog post doesn't provide any sources and might not be reliable. I would suggest "Animal Profile – The Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Foundation"
 * In the "Use as symbol" section, there could be more written about Vancouver Island marmots being used as a conservation symbol in British Columbia. How are they being used as symbols? The title of this section could be reduced to Symbolism.
 * Areas that need more citations/sources:
 * The last few lines in the "Life history, habitat characteristics and population trends" section
 * Paragraph starting with "In 1998 a new model for species recovery was born [...]" in the "Conservation status" section
 * "Use as symbols" section