User:AyalaSofia0/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Italy was one of the countries that declared to be in grave emergency at the beginning of the quarantine in march 2020. Since this article closely covers the COVID-19 crisis in Italy and how the State responded to it, I chose the article to evaluate and contribute to. My preliminary impression of the article was that it is very thorough and contains information on various issues affected by COVID-19.

Evaluate the article
The article is well written and structured according to the key aspects. It begins with a detailed overview and follows with a description of how the Italian government managed the situation. The contents of the article are very up to date, the latest content is from August 2021, meaning the contributors are actively updating the information and checking the accuracy. The writing quality is good, no grammar errors were spotted, and the article is well organized in different, concise paragraphs. The article contains graphs that are illustrate the information written, such as graphs of the number of COVID-19 cases every day and in total. Other images include facilities that administer COVID-19 tests and vaccines, as well as a message written on an Italian flag from a quarantined home. These images are related to the informative purpose of the article because it illustrates the impact COVID-19 had on Italian society. There are over 354 sources cited at the footnote of the article, which shows that the contributors have done proper research that overall represented a neutral and informed toned. The talk page discusses what elements of the articles can be improved or require to be updated. It also shows discussion on whether a popular belief on Italy's first case was in fact true and what resources support that belief vs counter it. In summary, I was impressed with the article and the large amount of cited information it included. Its strengths are the concise overview and the helpful graphs. One of the weaknesses I would work on would be to continually update the data and adding more information to the "Background" and "Timeline" sections. The article is well-developed but not completed due to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.