User:Srobinson55/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Fish locomotion

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article relates to my subset of my chosen topic: the body plan of viperfish. A fish's body plan informs its motion and patterns of movement.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is complete and detailed.There is perhaps, a bit too much specific information and details that could be contained in the later sections. However, this is an information dense article, and the beginning sets up the reader to understand this.

The content and style of this article was up to date and easy to follow. It felt both neutral, and polished. There were no leading biases, and the writing was professional without being verbose. I could connect the various subjects and facts through the well-organized structure of the article. The authors took advantage of nesting information through many categories/subcategories. This helped me follow information dense topics.

The images in this article were a mixed bag. Several of them illustrated important behavioral functions of locomotion, like the images in the section regarding flying. Another good example was the videos of walking fish. However, there was a large compilation of images of fish larvae. These images did not contribute to the article in a meaningful way. Most were not specifically referenced or explained.

Sources in this article are largely distributed in academic articles and papers. However, I spotted several news articles referenced. These are not the best form of references. Additionally, each of the news articles cites an academic paper. With some tracing, these links are far superior than the news articles themselves. For some reason, some articles were cited in a different form than others; some had links and some did not. However, a subset of the sources seemed to all be real, and have functional links/DOI.

This article is a part of WikiProject Fishes, and is rated C-Class quality within this project. It is considered of High-Importance for the project. Within the talk section, several different people advocated for inclusion of other taxa, like those that include dolphins, squids, and other aquatic animals. I also witnessed some very cordial, informative discussions debating "Fish movement" vs "fish locomotion." I could tell that people posting on the talk page had a variety of knowledge about this topic.

Overall, I think this is a very informative article. I think that there are several very small subsections that could be either expanded on, or collapsed into bullet points, rather than section breaks. The article is extremely complete, and perhapscould be broken down into several smaller articles to reduce the bulk of this one.