User:Colettemort/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Talk:Vaccination

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I had a hard time finding an article that actually had information written and not just vague ideas of what they would write. I chose Vaccination because it is a very prevalent topic right now.

Evaluate the article
The Lead Section of the article does a good job giving a brief and basic knowledge on vaccinations. The second and third paragraphs bring up some topics that are later discussed in the article, but I think it could've done a better job laying out the subject matter that is addressed further on. I also feel that there was some details addressed in the lead that were unnecessary such as the statistics of smallpox. I think it was a great time to bring up smallpox as it is relevant and is evaluated later on, but I don't think it was the right time to write about the infection rate of smallpox.

The content of the page is relevant and discusses all the different facets of vaccinations including arguments for and against it. The article does not address equity gaps or the effects on underrepresented populations. It mostly focuses on vaccinations in the United States and needs to expand into a more global view. I believe the article was written from a point of view that getting vaccinated is important. While science supports this idea, I think it would've been beneficial to address the concerns that more and more people are seeming to have in more detail.

The article does a good job sighting all of its statistics with credible sources. The writing is well done and there are many images and graphs that help the reader better understand. There are also helpful hyperlinks to topics discussed if the reader wants to learn more. Overall, I think the article is well done it just needs to broaden its view to minorities and to the controversial topic. It is well developed.