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Article Evaluation

Reviewing Article: Gnathostomata

Question Responses:

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
  • Yes, everything in the article is relevant to the topic and I did not notice any sort of information that seemed out of place. One thing that sort of distracted me is the organization of the article. There are only two sections, the introduction and classification. The introduction includes a lot of information that could possibly be expanded on in its own section.
• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
  • The article is neutral sticking to talking about information about gnathostomata rather than opinions, thoughts, etc. about them. There is no bias for or against gnathostomata in any way.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
  • No, the article really doesn't include viewpoints of any kind. For that reason there is no over or under representation of any viewpoint.
• Check a few citations.
  • Are they properly formatted?
    • There are about 5 citations that are incorrectly formatted just providing the link to an article or research paper rather than expanding out the full citation. There could also be some other smaller errors in citations that I am not fully aware of.
  • Do the links work?
    • Links 18-20 direct the viewer to pages that do not exist. On the 15th citation, the link directs the viewer to a page that does not at all correspond with the claim made in the article.
  • Does the source support the claims in the article?
    • For all of the citations that are correctly formatted, the sources do support the claim made in the article and there wasn't any misinterpretation or extrapolation that I noticed.
  • 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?
    • This could be considered a major problem regarding the information on this article. Almost half of the citations direct the viewer to a primary research article, which I consider to be a reliable reference. However, there are about 8 citations/links that direct the viewer to an article written by a third party explaining the results of primary research. These authors/websites run the risk of misinterpretation and extrapolation of the results of the primary research and could also contain some sort of bias as well. To improve the credibility of this article, finding primary research to support these claims and avoiding citing these third party websites should be prioritized. I did not notice any sort of obvious bias among these sources.
  • Are there any instances of plagiarism on the page?
    • Incorrect citations or citing a third party website explaining primary research could be considered plagiarism as the researchers are not being correctly credited for their research.
  • Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
    • Most of the citations range from the early 2000's to present with only a few being in the 1990s. While this information may not be out of date yet, updating some of these research articles with current research could be beneficial.
  • Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
    • The talk page does not have much activity as I thought it would. A majority of the talk section was from 2006 and was about the taxonomy and phylogeny of gnathostomata. The editors were talking through what information needs to be added or changed in this section as well as articles that could be used as citations. There have been some minor changes since then, but I feel like there could be more conversations about how to improve the page as there are a lot of sections that could be expanded on. They did not organize their conversations very well and they can be hard to follow at times.
  • How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
    • The article is rated Start-Class so there is a lot that could be improved. It is a part of the WikiProject Animals.
  • How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
    • I feel like the Wikipedia article discusses Gnathostomata in a more wide range including various pieces of information that we might not focus on in class while learning about them. They also tend to go more into detail on certain aspects of gnathostomata compared to what we learn in class explaining a lot about their unique characteristics. I noticed a lot of the same terms being used when mentioning their anatomy and evolutionary history.

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