User:E.Butrimaviciute/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Women in Medicine

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because the topic of this article briefly covers some of the Women in Medicine that we talked about in our lecture. Additionally, this article can be viewed as a brief summary of how the role of women in medicine shifted throughout the centuries. In my opinion, this article contains very basic information regarding different cultures and different types of medicine that was practiced by women specifically, in the past. I believe that this article needs a bit more in depth research so that more detailed explanations behind presented claims could take place.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead section: In my opinion, the lead section includes a clear and concise introductory sentence that accurately describes the topic that is going to be discussed within the article. Additionally, even though it contains the content table which helps us to navigate within the article, the lead section does not really seem to contain brief descriptions regarding those sections. Lastly, the lead of this article is concise and nicely polished.

Content: In my opinion, the article's content is relevant to the topic because it represents and discusses different types of medicine practiced by women in different cultures during different periods of time (from medieval times to basically nowadays). The content of this article seems to be up to date because, as mentioned previously, it contains a time frame of how, when, and where different types of medicine were practiced by women way before and during 20th and 21st century. I noticed that some of the citations referring to the source where that specific information was obtained from were missing. Other than that, personally, I believe that some of the specific topics that were covered within the article could contain a bit more in depth information regarding it because the way it is now, this article or certain parts of it almost seems to be missing or lacking some parts or bits of information within it. I believe that this article does a really great job addressing those topics in relation to underrepresented population, in this case, women in medicine.

Tone and Balance: I believe this article tone to be neutral. Those topics discussed within this article seems to be balanced out and sharing an equal attention. I am not quite sure if this article contains any other viewpoints than the one from which this article is being drawn, the neutral one. Additionally, since the tone of this article seems to be neutral, it does not seem that there is any attempt to persuade its reader one way or another.

Sources and References: In my opinion, some of the facts discussed within this article could use some more backup when it comes to using reliable sources. As mentioned previously, some of the presented information was lacking citations. Those sources used within this article seem to be thorough, reflecting on any other sources that can be found regarding discussed information. Used sources within this article seem to be up to date and most importantly, reliable. All links present within this article seem to work. The only thing that I am not quite sure about is if those sources used within this article represents diverse spectrum of perspectives.

Organization and Writing Quality: I strongly believe that this article is written using clear and concise wording, as well as sentences which makes this article to be easy readable. From what I have seems this article does not seem to contain any grammar and/or spelling errors. This article seems to be organized very well. Every section of this article seems to reflect major points of the topic.

Images and Media: I would not necessarily would say that those images used within this article enhances reader's understanding regarding presented information within the article because it pictures some of the women in the field of medicine as well as their occupation within it. However, these images seem to be laid out in a visually appealing way. Additionally, all of the captions under it, seems to be well-captioned. Lastly, when it comes to Wikipedia's copyright regulations, these images seem to adhere to it.

Talk page discussion: When it comes to conversations/discussions regarding this topic, I was not able to find any. This article is rated B-class, and High-importance and it also happened to be in interest to the following WikiProjects: 1) Gender Studies, 2) Women's History, 3) Medicine, 4) Women Scientists, and 5) Women. When discussed in class, this topic seemed to be more detailed and more in depth regarding a couple specific women, mainly from the Middle Ages. On the other hand, this article seems to touch on some of the the same topics discussed in class just that more broadly and less in depth.

Overall Impressions: Based on my opinion, the overall status of this article is pretty good, however, needs to be slightly improved in previously discussed domains such as citing used sources as well as incorporating more in depth information regarding some of the discussed topics. I believe that one of the biggest strengths of this article is its organization which enables us to easily find that information that we are looking for. I would say that this article definitely needs some more effort to be put in. For this reason, I would rate it to underdeveloped. However, with some more edits and additional in depth information, this article could be more than well-developed.