User:AF1798/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mercury poisoning

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The reason I chose to evaluate this article is because it is closely related to what we have discussed in class. We have gone over the effects mercury can have on people, so I thought I would evaluate what wikipedia says about this article.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is an excellent overview of the topic. In it contains everything a reader who is just skimming would need to know to continue their research into whatever brought them there. The initial sentence is clear and tells me the exact definition of mercury poisoning. The first section also covers methyl mercury and organic mercury which are both essential for understanding its dangerous effects. The content is extremely well written and is easily understood by anyone who is reading this article. Also, it covers nearly every aspect of mercury poisoning including assassination attempts with this substance. I thought that this gave the article a lot of strength and diversity of thought. The tone and balance were on point and at no point was bias found. Even when the article refers to physcians recommending remedies it stays unbiased and does not give any one side too much time. The sources and references were mostly all either .orgs or .govs and the links worked and were useful. All the links that I clicked on gave me up to date information and was trustworthy. There were many journals as well which give us peer reviewed research which added much trust to the articles claims. The organization of the page was a little whacky and can use some work. For instance, it seemed like many sections were thrown at you and they needed to be cleaned up.Some of the information dives in the section seemed a bit irrelevant and could be removed for a easier read. The images were not relevant and need to be updated with some more clear and concise pictures that tell one the reason why they are there. The overall status of the article is an A piece. It needs a bit of updating in the media department and cleaning up a few sections, but overall it was clear and got to the point in the main idea.