User:Ciarrai32/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Pharmaceutical industry

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because the Pharmaceutical Industry is very involved in the Health and Wellness Industry and also a major component of the Medical Industrial Complex. It is also an industry that is full of controversy, scandal, and inequality throughout. I am also very interested in pharmacology and chemistry and hope to enter the industry in the future.

Evaluate the article

 * Lead Section: The lead sentence is comprehensive, but at the same time quite long. The rest of the lead paragraph provides a decent overview of topics discussed in the article; however, I would like to have seen a mention of the multiple controversies that have plagued the pharmaceutical industry in the past and continues to do so today.


 * Content: The content of the article is all relevant to the pharmaceutical industry and is updated to approximately 2020 / 2021 during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article also attempts to address aspects of equity gaps and neglect caused by the global pharmaceutical industry through a section on the pharmaceutical industry's impact on medication access in the developing world.
 * Tone and Balance: The article seems to put forward an overall neutral tone, especially in places involving pharmaceutical controversies such as fraud and regulatory issues. The article does not attempt to persuade the author toward one position or another. However, the section on pharmaceutical fraud generally deal with cases in the United States and not globally (so this is a section that could be expanded on).
 * Sources and Reference: Facts stated in this article are all backed up by reliable sources which reflect the topic at hand. The links work and the sources are current, based on the historical period being talked about.
 * Organization and Writing Quality: overall, the article is well written and there are no spelling and grammatical errors that I could find. The article is also very well organized and broken down into appropriate subheadings.
 * Images and Media: The article includes a plethora of imagery that enhances the understanding of the article. For example, there is a picture of the malformation of a baby's hands after a mother took the drug thalidomide while pregnant. The images are well captioned and comply with copyright regulations.
 * Talk Page Discussion: In the talk page, the main discussion that is happening is surrounding drug marketing and lobbying, mainly in gathering better source information and descriptions of controversies. This article is part of a variety of WikiProjects and is rated a Class-B article. Wikipedia mainly discusses this article in a factual basis, rather than taking into account opinions contrary to the current Medical Industrial Complex.
 * Overall Impressions: The overall status of the article is fairly comprehensive. The article covers the history of the pharmaceutical industry well and touches somewhat on the controversies and inequalities that have happened. However, the article could be improved by including a more worldwide collection of instances of pharmaceutical fraud in order to highlight such issues outside of the United States. Overall, I would say that the article is well developed.