User:98.185.160.87/sandbox

Article evaluation
The article I chose to evaluate was "History of medicine in the United States." Immediately at the top of the page there is a warning box that says that the article has multiple issues. These issues include that it needs to be updated, as it's last edit was November 2017, and that the article is missing important milestone information as of March 2018. These would be areas that need improving and could use the addition of information. Additionally, the section about World War II seems like it is missing a lot of information, considering it is more recent and should have a lot of information about the medicine during that time. One final note is that it does not have any information up to the present day. The section titled "modern medicine" stops around the 1800s, and there is over 200 years worth of medical history that needs to be accounted for, especially within the last ten years.

As I read through the article, there were certain points that were applicable to what we are learning in class, specifically the sections about women and medical organization. I would say that this article is relevant towards the article topic, and even goes a little more in depth. However, this article does need more work.

The article seems neutral in tone, and do not seem biased towards a certain position. It merely gives a brief overview of medicine in the United States through the years. As mentioned before, it seems that WWII seems underrepresented, and could use a little more love in terms of doctors and accomplishments, and not just history of nurses.

There are many citations listed. These citations include surveys, very few online links, one primary source, a few uses of JSTOR database, and a list of links to major research collections. The links do work and take me directly to the source that was collected either online or from a database. They seem reliable, with some of the research collections coming from Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Library of Medicine to name a few. The sources seem neutral as they are presenting facts. The only one I might question is the primary source, which discusses the major problems in the History of American medicine.

Only a few conversations are listed on the talk page, and mention that there is missing information int the article about many key events in American medical history. The person who made this comment mentioned that the article mentions more about nursing than any other area of study. This article is a part of WikiProjects History, Medicine, United States/History, and History of Science. This article is listed as a level 5 vital article and rated as start-class. This Wikipedia article discusses the topic much more succinctly and neutrally, while in class we are much more interpretive and thoughtful about the information we are presented.