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Evaluate an article •	Tail wagging by dogs:Tail wagging by dogs •	I chose to evaluate this article as dogs are the animal that I encounter the most often, and therefor desired to learn more about their behaviour. I have a dog as a pet and would like to be able to more accurately interpret the behaviours she is communitcating. Lead The lead does include an introductory sentence that describes the articles topic. It introduces tail wagging and gives a definition of the behaviour. The lead does briefly mention a later section about tail position, however it does not mention it until the second paragraph. It may be more efficient to introduce all the major sections right after the definition of tail wagging so that the reader can follow along with the article more efficiently, or skip to their part of interest. The lead does not mention any information that is not present in the article. Finally, the lead is slightly too detailed. It may be possible to move the information about the different motions of the tail wags into a different section or add it to the section entitled "Position of the tail". Furthermore, information about directionality associated with movement may be moved to its own section and elaborated upon instead of indicated that wags to the right are associated with positive feelings and left with negative feelings. This information seems to be slightly too detailed for the lead. The information is up to date as most of the references were published in 2017 and 2018. Content The articles content was completely relevant to the topic. The position of the tail is highly indicatory of the behaviour being expressed by the animal as the article states. Some sentences in the section "position of the tail" were slightly hard to read even though the paragraph was relatively short. There was nothing in the article about the evolutionary history of tail wagging behaviour which may be an interesting addition. Tone and Balance The article was neutral and was not biased. There were not many opportunities for viewpoints to be over or underrepresented as there was no discussion on the stance of comparative ethologists or comparative psychologists in the origin or reasoning behind the tail wag in dogs. Furthermore the article did not attempt to persuade the reader, it simply presented scientific findings about tail wags. Sources and References All the citations have functioning links to reliable sources, except for the link to the book "Divided brains: the biology and behaviour brain symmetries" by Lesley Rogers.This link does not bring you to information about the book, but to a wikipedia page about book sources. The information presented in the article is backed up by numerous different sources such as Psychology Today and PetMD. While Psychology today presents peer reviewed articles other references like PetMD may not be as credible. The external links such as National Geographic further support the information provided in the article and is a reliable source. There is one instance when a citation is needed in the article. The information about dogs moving its tail to he left has no citation. The sources are neutral and discuss both the negative and positive emotions that can be associated with tail wagging. Checking the talk page This article is proposed to be deleted as it repeats information that can be found on the wikipedia page "Dog Communication" and "Body Language of Dogs". This article is involved in three different WikiProjects; WikiProject Dogs, WikiProject Psychology and WikiProject Cognitive science. The article is rated as Stub-Class and Low-Importance in all three WikiProjects.To my knowledge we have not discussed tail wagging behaviour in class.

Mhfahmy (talk) 14:41, 12 October 2019 (UTC)Feedback on article choice (MF): The tail wagging article does need more contributions. Make sure there's sufficient peer-reviewed literature that would help you expand on the article.