User:SelectivelyPermeableStudent/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I am evaluating the article on adhesives.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I found it by looking through the C-Class chemistry articles. It's important because adhesives are very widely used but their mechanisms are not so well understood by the average user. The page can be a helpful guide for someone looking to choose the right adhesive or understand how different adhesives work.

The page looks like it contains a good deal of information, but it's organized a little strangely. Why is there a one-line section on shelf life simply stating that some adhesives have a finite shelf-life?

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 information in the article is relevant. Nothing seems distracting about it. The article does not include information about equity gaps. I think adding more information to the different sections under "by reactiveness" to include examples of adhesives with these properties as well as their uses would be helpful.

The tone of the article is neutral. No viewpoints are over/underrepresented. I took minor note of the following sentence under "Economic importance":


 * There is hardly any product in our surroundings that does not contain at least one adhesive—be it the label on a beverage bottle, protective coatings on automobiles, or profiles on window frames.

This can stand to be expressed in a more neutral tone. It sounds a little bit like it was written by a glue salesperson.

The sources I checked work, and do support the cited statements. Most of the sources are fairly recent and come from peer-reviewed sources. There are a few books and market studies.

It seems like the conversations have stopped on the talk page since 2011, but the page has been updated since then (many of the sources are more recent than that). The few threads on the talk page are addressing content gaps or errors in the page. Most of these issues have been addressed, but a few have not been. The discussions on the talk page seem to try to build into existing content to improve the article, whereas our learning is more linear and directed.

The article is part of four WikiProjects: Metalworking, Technology, Chemistry, and Materials. It is a C-Class article of low-mid importance.