User:TastyFungicide/Evaluate an Article

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 the biological system page since people who are just starting to learn biology may gravitate towards Wikipedia to understand what a biological system is and the different subtypes. My preliminary impression was that the Wikipedia article gave a thorough overview of the topic.

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 lead section of the biological systems concisely and clearly described the articles topic, included a brief description of the articles major sections, and did not include information not present in the article.

The articles content was very relevant to the topic, and is somewhat up to date since it was last edited November 2022. There does not seem to be obvious missing content since it is such a broad topic, but it does not talk about biological systems within the context of different minority or racial groups.

The article was written in a neutral tone, and does not seem to persuade the viewer in one way or another. The article was backed by reliable secondary sources, but only some of the sources are current, while some are outdated. Since the topic is very broad, the basic topics which the article talks about may not need to be updated by very current sources if the baseline ideas have not changed over the past few years. Surprisingly, there were not many resources in general that were sited, but the ones that were sited had links that still work. The writing quality was very clear, organized into distinct sections, and the language is approachable on the same level as a lecture course. There is only one image used in the article, and it was created by one of the authors, so it has no copyright restrictions. The image is simple and easily readable, so it is laid out in a visually appealing way.

Overall, I think the article is thorough and a good introduction for new students trying to understand the concept of biological systems, but the article can be improved by adding more recent and relevant sources, and links to learn more about the topic.