User:Jwheatley01/Choose an Article
Article Selection
[edit]Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.
Option 1
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- Antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis
- Article Evaluation
- I was intrigued by this article because ageing is a fascinating subject to me, and I wanted to gain more knowledge of subjects relating to the topic of aging. Before I evaluated the article, I checked the talk section of the page. I learned that the last person to show interest in editing the page was 2020. Also, one of the editors wanted to add more images since majority of the article was text. When I schemed through the article, I notice that there was a lot of information and some of the titles seemed too complex, for example, "As a constraint on Perfection." Another note is the organization of the topics, it doesn't seem to flow easily it also seems too complex for the average reader.
- Sources
Option 2
[edit]- Article title
- Fate mapping
- Article Evaluation
- At first glance, the article is short in length only consisting of the lead section and three brief body paragraphs. When I reviewed the talk page of the article, I saw that another Development Biology student from a previous semester edited the article. The lead section of the article is strong because it briefly describes the topic of Fate mapping without being to broad or too specific. For the body of the article, it is also very short. I feel like it needs more information. For example, there was a "See also" section with a link to cell fate determination within the body of the article. Information about that topic can be placed within the article, as it relates to fate mapping, and then the topic can be linked.
- Sources
Option 3
[edit]- Article title
- Calorie restriction
- Article Evaluation
- At first glance, there seems to be a lot of good information added to the article. On the organization side, the flow is a little all over the place. The lead section is not the strongest because it starts off with a good introduction sentence but after that it feels unnecessary and wordy. The lead section also felt opinionated/one-sided when it was insinuated that calorie restriction is mainly in the US. After the lead section was then the body of the article. The body of the article seemed a little all over the place, there were some grammatical errors, and the information within the body of the article fluctuated from being too broad to too specific.
- Sources
Option 4
[edit]- Article title
- Epimorphosis
- Article Evaluation
- At first glance, the article was well organized. It included a lead section that wasn't too long, and it got straight to the point. The body of the article was organized nicely with the history of epimorphosis being the first body paragraph. Then the last two body paragraphs, explained the difference of epimorphosis within Invertebrates and vertebrates. There are some minor grammatical errors and links that aren't available.
- Sources
Option 5
[edit]- Article title
- Egg jelly
- Article Evaluation
- At first glance, the article is very short. The article's main information is found in the lead section. The lead section seems to be crammed with a lot of information. The lead section should act as a brief introduction to the article, and not the entire article itself. There needs to be a body section that goes into detail but most of that information is in the lead section.
- Sources
- [1]
- ^ Farley, Gregory S.; Levitan, Don R. (2001-06). "The Role of Jelly Coats in Sperm‐Egg Encounters, Fertilization Success, and Selection on Egg Size in Broadcast Spawners". The American Naturalist. 157 (6): 626–636. doi:10.1086/320619. ISSN 0003-0147.
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