User:XBORNIO312/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
IUCN Red List

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The reason I chose it was because of the fact that I think one of the saddest things currently happening in the world is our loss of biodiversity and animals. I found the article to be well written and really provided a lot of clarity as to how the site operates and how different species come to be placed on the list.

Evaluate the article
The lead section provides a really clear an concise answer as to what the article is referring to, in this case what the IUCN is as well some other key facts about it like when it was formed and what it represents. It provides an accurate representation for someone just looking for "what is the IUCN" while also ensuring that people looking for a bit more information from it know what the rest of the article will be speaking about. The content within the article is relevant to the topic throughout while maintaining a neutral tone during the entirety for what could be seen as an article that could easily be pushed to one side or another. The article and writing quality flows quite well, it starts you off with a brief of what the article is before starting off with the history and breaking down year by years and then leading into what is currently happening with it. Once it's helped you to understand what has occurred in the past of the organization it then touches on controversies it's had during that time span as well. All of these paragraphs have continuous and regular citing allowing for verifiable information throughout for the readers who want to delve even deeper. All of this strong writing is supported with some nice graphs to help illustrate the points trying to be made and that in my case absolutely helped me understand and further visualize what I was reading. The talk page unfortunately hasn't been particularly active with the most recent message being one questioning the validity of one of the statements made in the article from 2015. This comment was never responded to and there hasn't been any more activity in it since then. The most recent activities involve other resources including, environment, extinction and a couple more. My overall opinion on the article is that it's overall pretty well written while providing the information most people would be looking for within it and providing quality citations for people who would want to explore in more depth following the article.— ~