User:TigerERTH4303/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Dactylopius Dactylopius

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because it's one of the most common and oldest source of red dye, something we use in a plethora of coloring from paints to food. On first impressions it was pretty good, there were pictures to help understand what they look like and each section made sense as to why they were created.

Evaluate the article
Overall the article was made quite well. Paragraphs were informative without being overly information heavy and for the most part everything was cited properly. The lead was good, from just that I could tell I was in the right place and looking at the right thing. It was clear throughout just some nitpicks of the authors using the words "probably" and "apparently" which doesn't sound as if they are going off facts. In the biology section this can be see as they talk about having larvae hatch inside of females, and when checking the reference they also use the word "probably" as well. I think using a quote from the main source would have been better rather then them saying probably themselves. This is also evident in distribution where they use "apparently" and "today" which doesn't work and should be replaced with perhaps a "has appeared in these locations since...". Other than that, the rest of the article seemed fine. nothing much in the talk pages other than a broken reference (Reference 11), which has since been fixed, although the page was not in English. As for completeness, I think it's 98% there, perhaps adding a picture of the male and females side by side as they did mentioned how they were sexually dimorphic, a picture could help readers grasps that, and maybe another for the life cycles as well.