User:Cam Coe27/Evaluate an Article

User:Cam Coe27/Evaluate

Which article are you evaluating?
Medical entomology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I thought it would be interesting to learn about how different insects impact health and medicine. I thought that maybe in the article it would have discussd different ways insects have been used in medicine which would relate to the course this is for. However it only discussed different illnesses caused by insects.

Evaluate the article
The lead section was okay, it described the topic the article was about but did not describe the subsections of the article. It mentioned that medical entomology included a large outreach with public health officials, but then never discussed this topic again. Not every claim or fact presented in this article has been cited. The lead section, the housefly, and cockroach section of the article had no citations to support the facts presented. The sources cited were recent and were reliable. There were no peer-reviewed journals cited, which could have helped, but most of the refrences were books or webpages from the CDC and WHO. The writing was concise and easy to understand, but the images included were not well executed. One of the images of an insect had no caption and the other image could have been captioned better with more information. This article has not recieved a quality or importance rating at this time and the talk page includes multiple suggestions on how to improve the article. Most people on the talk page agreed that this article is well written, but that including a peer-reviewed journal could help and better organization of the sections could benefit the article. This article is also apart of two WikiProjects, WikiProject Medicine and WikiProject Insects. One of the strengths of this article is that it presents information in a neutral and unbiased matter, it is also very easy to read. However it feels underdeveloped and unfinished. The article presents a list of diseases caused by insects and discussed cockroaches, houseflys, biting insects, and personal pests in depth, but it never discussed the public outreach or public health measures it mentioned in the introduction. Overall this article needs more information added to it to make it more complete and it could benefit from different organization and more scientific sources.