User:Sheridantaylor17/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Marine invertebrates

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 it because the class I am taking is Invertebrate zoology and this article is very relevant to the topic of this class. Also I am a Marine Science Major so I picked marine invertebrates.The content is relevant to the article, except for possibly the few sentences about sea minerals. While it does have some ties to the topic it seems a bit random and not really needed, but doesn't hurt the overall article.

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 first sentence does describe what the article is about. If you do not know what an invertebrate is it is explained in the second sentence. There is a table of contents in the lead giving the audience a sneak peek of the contents in the article. The lead is concise and doesn't give any extra or outside information that is not relevant to the topic. Content is up to date. There is a little notes section that acknowledges a formerly held belief to be corrected to the currently held beliefs. It does not deal with equity gaps or underrepresented populations.

This article has a neutral, informative tone. Each section is accurately and equally represented with no bias involved, or persuasion towards any certain viewpoint. The facts are backed up by sources cited in the references section. They are reliable sources coming from scholarly articles, fisheries reports, and journals. One source I clicked on took me to a page that said the article was either moved or no longer available, so the author would need to go back and try and find the article again and post an updated link.

The article is easy to read with sections for each different topic of the article in an organized fashion. I did not find any grammatical or spelling errors.

This article includes many images with well written captions underneath. Facts are cited in the captions as well. Images are given credit properly or state that they are in the public domain. The images are organized in an appealing way.

This article is part of the WikiProjects on Marine Life. There are some prods for the article to be deleted entirely because a user thinks the term Marine Invertebrates is a useless historical term to describe any non vertebrate animals. Another user said only the intro should stay and the rest of the article is just a list of examples. Some links were updated in the talk page.

I think overall the article is very well written and gives a good basis of knowledge for the topic it describes. It gives examples of different phyla and examples of invertebrates which helps the reader better understand what marine invertebrates are while highlighting some animals they probably know about but may not have known were invertebrates. I think the section on sea minerals is not needed and could be deleted. This article is well developed.