User:Articles0405/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ross River fever - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because I wanted to evaluate a smaller start up article as that is what I’ll likely end up editing on the assignment. This disease is important because the people who are infected with it can potentially get muscle inflammation and stiffness that can last years affecting their quality of life. My first impression of it was that it was short and potentially undetailed because of it though I considered that it might just be because there is not a lot of information on this disease.

Evaluate the article
Overall this article is ok. The lead of this article is short and it only summarizes points in a few of the sections so details could be added about the article to it though the lead sentence describes the article's topic and all the content in the lead is also in the article. This article seems to have some good information, that's all relevant, about the virus and it’s accurate though it doesn’t have articles newer than two years ago and some of the source links are not working so some of the facts mentioned in the article can’t be proven well along with that there are a few citations needed. There could also be more information in one of the articles cited. I found some information on the economical impact to Australia, a topic that isn’t even mentioned in the article. The information is clearly organized and written in a clear and understandable way and is enjoyable to read and easy to absorb. The grammar is good and has little to no errors in the article. It also remains neutral throughout the article only presenting facts and the sources don’t have an agenda beyond giving information on the disease as far as i can tell. There is no attempt to use media to enhance the content of this article and there is also little discussion on the talk part of the article and as far as i can tell there is only one message on there. The sources are all written by different people though two of them are from the same organization, the sources are all short, but they together offer a good variety of information. So, the article is definitely underdeveloped and from the history doesn’t get a lot of attention but what is here is really good but it’s definitely not a bad article but definitely not a great one.