User:ClaireMB22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
COVID-19 pandemic

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because there is a lot of information that is in the outline of the wiki page. Since COVID-19 is still ongoing it also creates room for a lot of new information to be added over time so it is important that the information so far is organized.

Evaluate the article
The lead section has a great opening sentence that introduces the topic well. This section gives introductory information based on what the main sections of the article. The lead section ends with a paragraph on the continuing implications of the COVID-19 pandemic which creates a great story for the rest of the article to follow.

This article is up to date, it has statistics that are from today's date throughout the article. The content within the article is all very relevant to the ways that COVID-19 impacted everything from health to the economy. this article does a very good job of maintaining balance between each topic. In the section discussing national responses, each area of the world had about equal amounts of information following it. the article does not try to persuade the reader to any side, it has a very unbiased tone when discussing politics and social issues. the article has a decent amount of visual aids but most are just images, i feel it could benefit from having more charts or graphs so the reader doesn't have to dig through the whole article for some information. I appreciate how the article discusses groups that faced discrimination throughout the pandemic with factual evidence and statistics.

The article has a lot of sources, most appearing to be from worldwide news sources as well as various government and global organizations. i think that the article could benefit from having more peer reviewed sources to show some analysis of some of the statistics or events that occured from the pandemic. I used three links that all worked.

I did not find any errors in the writing. All of the sections are very concise, the article itself could be much longer with the amount of information it covers. All of the topics are broken down very well and relevant to the topic, I don't think any should be omitted.

~Claire