User:Hannahah01/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
History of HIV/AIDS

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because the HIV/AIDS epidemic is quite interesting but also has a lot of misinformation associated with it. We have come a long ways in learning more about the disease, and it matters because of how many people it has affected worldwide. We also learn about it in this course, so I thought it was relevant. My preliminary impression was that I would read a chronological history about the discovery and treatment of HIV/AIDS, along with misconceptions and statistics about its effects. After reading it, I see there is also a lot of information about the origins, virulence, and spread, along with distinguishing between different strains.

Evaluate the article
The introductory sentence concisely describes the topic, but there is no description of the following sections. The lead is concise but focuses more on the two strains of HIV rather than giving an overall summary. The content is relevant to the topic and up-to-date and uses sources from a variety of years, including recent years. The article also mentions the stigma towards LGBTQ individuals, so I think it relates to underrepresented topics. The article appears neutral and more informative than persuasive. All facts mentioned in this article are backed up by reliable secondary sources, and also reflect the literature of these sources. Some sources are current, but some are from the early 2000s. Overall, I think that a peer-reviewed journal would be a more reliable source, likely one that was cited by this page. The article is organized and well-written, and I did not catch any grammatical or spelling mistakes. The article only includes two images, one of an electron micrograph scan of HIV, and one of the breeds of monkeys that were the sources of HIV-1 and HIV-2. The photos are captioned appropriately and informatively. However I think it would be beneficial to the readers if the article included more photos later on throughout the article to keep the audience engaged. There should be a photo for each section, rather than just the introduction and first section. Because there are only two small photos at the beginning of the article, I would not consider them visually appealing. The article discusses the pathogenicity and spread of the virus, which relates to the course.

The article has a B-class rating and is part of the WikiProjects Biology, Medicine, Molecular Biology, Viruses, and AIDS. Overall, the article is well-developed and informative, but could do with better images and a more summative introduction/lead. The article mostly discusses HIV rather than AIDS, so I think it would be more appropriate to remove AIDS from the title.