User:Tina W Raad/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Chinook salmon

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
King salmon are on of the keystone species we discussed in class. I wanted to see if Wikipedia held any insights to the significance of the species.

Evaluate the article
The lead was well written, but focuses on the ocean portion of the salmons life to include major ocean pressures. It doesn't mention they have inland aquatic needs for spawning and their associated pressures. The lead overly enumerates reasons salmon numbers are decreasing in the ocean, while failing to bring up that man made waterway changes are also greatly impacting salmon numbers. This topic is only briefly touched on at the end the life cycle section.

The content is relevant and up-to date. It's missing the importance of salmon as a keystone species in the Pacific northwest. The effects of inland water management on salmon is also missing. As is the impact salmon have on the environment in bringing a massive amount of ocean nutrients in land for flora and fauna. The content does fall into the equity gap if you consider the environment as being underserved, under represented, and dominated like in ecofeminism. If not, then the Native American importance of salmon being summed up in only three sentences that don't include the importance of salmon as an origin story would be part of the equity gap.

The tone seems neutral enough. The Native American viewpoint is marginalized.

The majority of the sources are from 2010 and before. The sources for the information on their inland life cycle same from the Seattle Times in 2002. This is quite outdated on the significance of the issue and a peer reviewed article would be an improvement. None of the sources contain a native American view point. The cultural importance for Natives doesn't have a source listed. Source link number 32 doesn't work.

The organization and writing quality were well done.

Images were appropriately captioned and visually interesting.

The talk page was interesting, there was talk on ivory salmon, a bogus graph, and a request to update information as most is from 2010 or older. The graph is still there, it represents income raising salmon that ends in 2004. The ivory salmon is deleted. It's a part of Wikiprojects of Alaska, Oregon, and Fishes.

Overall it seems to be well developed, but outdated and lacking in the Native American perspective. New scholarly articles would be a great contribution to this article.