User:Sharko2002/Evaluate an Article

Evaluating this article: Orca

I chose this article because I am interested in Orcas and curious about what ways this article could be improved. My initial impression was that it looks very long and well thought out, with a good balance of images and text. It's important that information on creatures like Orcas stays up to date so that people can be correctly informed when seeking answers to questions related to population loss of marine mammals.

This section starts with a broad but clear definition of Orcas and includes small details like scientific name and common name for understanding. Each paragraph in this section focuses on a different section of the article and is succinct without being vague.

The content is relevant to the article and uses data up until 2020. It could probably be updated with more relevant information from the past couple of years, especially in the Conservation section. It would be interesting to add the stories about orcas attacking boats over this past summer. Additionally, a few of the sections seem to be neglected in comparison to others in the article: Population, Feeding, Behavior, Cooperation with Humans, and Orca attacks on sailboats and small vessels. In contrast, other sections are quite large and verbose.

Despite discussing (potentially) heated topics like habitat loss and conservation status and how the orcas came to be in this position, the article remains neutral and simply references the words of scientists and other experts.

In the Naming section, there is a fairly long quote that is two full sentences long. Even though it is common use because Pliny the Elder lived many centuries ago, I still think that the full quote wasn't necessary.

The article is broken up into sensible groups and each topic leads into the other fairly well. I do not see any glaring spelling or grammatical errors.

Each section has an image to go with the writing which is very helpful when the paragraph describes a situation where the image fits very well. They all have brief but descriptive captions. The images at the beginning of the article (Lead section) include a body size comparison of orcas to humans, a world map of their habitat range, and graphics of IUCN status, etc.