User:Ghedgpeth/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I am evaluating the Wikipedia article on Contraceptive trials in Puerto Rico.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because this is the article that my group was assigned for our project. It matters because it deals with the important topic of human experimentation ethics.

Evaluate the article
The article could benefit from being reorganized in a more chronological order. Additionally, one part of the article that could be expanded is the portion of the article that discusses the drug that was used in the trial. Wikipedia has overall rated the article as C-Class, noting several aspects of the article that may be improved. One issue raised by a Wikipedia moderator is that sections of the article are not as neutral as they should be. More specifically, the sources cited by the original author are mostly from US publications, namely sources that may lean politically a certain way, including Planned Parenthood and PBS. The moderator also asserts that there is occasionally bad use of language, specifically in the sentence “As Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw would argue through the theory of intersectionality…”. The moderator says that the phrase “argue through” is nonsensical and confusing.