User:TheSkyisBlue3/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Captive breeding

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it has been flagged as a start class under ruling and has room for improvement. I also chose it because breeding in captivity has become a large topic a lot of species could not continue to be helped under conservation if breeding in captivity did not occur.

This article matters because it is important to allow people to stay informed about breeding in captivity, why it occurs, and why it is important to support facilities who engage in this practice. Without captive breeding, some species we know today would be lost and just be a distant memory in our history books, our online sources, and personalized memories.

My preliminary impression of this article was that it contains a decent amount of information on the topic, but areas such as history and used methods can be expanded upon and could use more context and scientific helping. It is definitely rough around the edges but it can be turned into a very informative and helpful article for many to understand what some facilities do to captively breed, and understand why they do this.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

- The first sentence is a little vague on the topic because it does not fully define what the true actions of captive breeding really are. It could definitely be modified and written in a more descriptive matter for what captive breeding truly encapsulates.

- The lead feels little too concise, as if more information could be provided to give a general overview of the topic and allow the reader to understand the topic a little more. It could also use for more information to allow a reader to further explore specific cases or if they wish to read up on the topic. More important details can still be provided in this lead section for the article.

Content

- All of the sections are relevant to the article but some of them feel lack luster and more content could be added to them. The History section of this feels as though it could have more information and provide a lot more to the reader instead of the small amount of information that it does offer right now.

- The Challenges section is also highly emphasized and has a lot of information provided but it feels as if its trying to take away from the successes section and emphasize that this is too challenging and doesn't help too much.

Tone and Balance

- Overall the article keeps a fairly neutral stance but some of the sections seem to convey a tone in support of one stance compared to the other, provided more of an argument against than for instead of providing information and allowing people to make a judgement for themselves. There are definitely some biased claims throughout the article that take away from an objective viewpoint and attempt to persuade the reader.

Sources and References

- Most of the facts and information provided do have links to sources and references, but some of them feel a little outdated. Most of the sources are drawing from 5 or more years in the past and the field has advanced in recent times and there is definitely updated resources that can be included.

- Some sections and facts are also just missing citations throughout the article and can use a proper citation to back up the information.

Organization and Writing Quality

- The writing throughout the article is presented in a professional manner throughout, but there are some grammatical errors present when reading through the article.

- The article is organized well but it feels like some of the section can go before others and be re-structured just to help organize the information better to allow reading it to flow smoother and not persuade people in the first half, talk shortly about success, then go back to the persuasion.

Images and Media

- The article does contain images and most are well captioned but some could use improvement due to a vague description and confusion as to how it is relating to the overall topic of the article.

Talk Page

- The talk page has plenty of discussion about modifying the article and if certain information should be contained. Talks about a total rewrite for the article because it could be very good for people. There have been small edits made but it hasn't been touched for about 5 years and the talk page isn't active nowadays.

Overall Impression

- The article presents itself well in many places and has some nice organization to it but could use rewrites for some sections due to a lack of information and modern information. This field has definitely made strides and improved on information in the last couple of years and the fact it has not been touched in a while it definitely a little sad to see because it is a pertinent and interesting topic to the field of conservation biology and other scientific areas. A reorganizing of information could also help just to make it more concise in places and not be seen as a persuasion tactic due to how it is organized. The article definitely feels developed but for modern day and how much this area has changed in recent years it is underdeveloped in that sense. Some updates to information and more use of modern articles could definitely help improve this article greatly.