User:AvonnaPollard22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Alcohol abuse

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is based on a topic that peaked me interest. This article matters, because alcohol abuse is the common denominator of a lot of problems that people may face throughout their lifetime. Upon first glance of the article, it seems to be put together nicely. It has some organization, and it covers a multitude of aspects that are embodied in alcohol abuse.

Evaluate the article
Beginning with the lead section, the article starts off with a good basic definition of what alcohol abuse is and what it encompasses. However, it does not mention a majority of the articles major sections. For example, it only provides a range from binge drinking to alcohol dependence. There is no mention of pregnancy, age, or region. The lead does have any information that is not covered in the article, and it is pretty concise and straight to the point of the article.

In terms of content, the article does contain information that is relative to the topic. As I see it, the article covers all of the main aspects of alcohol abuse. I also believe that all of the information that is provided in the article belongs, and it does not really discuss any historically underrepresented populations.

While reading the article, I thought of it to have a neutral tone. The article does not seem too biased, and all of the viewpoints are represented equally. Additionally, I believe that the article does not try to persuade the reader into one direction or the other.

On the topic of organization, I believe that the topics could have been organized better. For example, the topics jump from violence to pregnancy to adolescence. Then further down you have mental illness and puberty, and then further down you have diagnosis and DSM-5. Adolescence and puberty should have been after one another, and mental illness and diagnosis should be together.

There is a lack of images in the article that add to the understanding of the topic. There could be more, however from the ones that I see appear to be in copyright regulations. Additionally, I do not believe that the images are placed in a visually appealing way, they are small and hard to see.

The sources and references seem to be viable to the article, and they also seem to work upon navigating to them.

As I scrolled through the talk page, the conversations seemed to be beneficial, and I noticed some debates going on. The article is rated C-class, and it is apart of 3 wiki projects (medicine, addictions and recovery, and food and drink/bevearages).

Overall, this article is rated high importance in the wiki projects medicine and addictions and recovery. The article provides a strong base of information related to alcohol abuse, and the aspects surrounding it. However, it could be organized better, there could be more images, and the images provided could be bigger and captioned better. I would say that the article is well-developed, but it is not done. There is work that still needs to be done to make this article better.