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Article Evaluation
Article: Polymerase chain reaction

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Yes. No, however, the article is divided into 7 subtopics.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? All the information is up-to-date. No, the article consists of sufficient information about the topic.

What else could be improved? I do not see anything that needs to be improved other than the need to be reworded to general terms for readers with poor background on Biology.

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? Yes, it is informative and addresses most of the aspects of PCR. No.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? Due to my limited knowledge about the topic, I see that all the information represented in the article was clear and explained well.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? Yes. I checked seven sources and they worked fine. Yes, they do.

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? The facts were represented properly with reliable and natural sources.

What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There were two talks I noticed that they were interesting. One was about the R in PCR. It was redundant when the article used to say PCR reaction when the R stands for reaction. Another talk was about the wording of the article. They were very technical for the general reader and needed to be changed.

How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? On the quality scale, it was C. The article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology	(Rated B-class, High-importance) Smithsonian Institution Archives project	(Rated B-class) WikiProject Genetics	(Rated B-class, High-importance)

How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? It is more informative and almost branches to other topics, still relative to the main topic, though.