User:Jsammy0311/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Women's medicine in antiquity

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article covers the topic of women's medical practice in the Greco-Roman Period. Understanding what happened in this time is crucial in seeing how medical care received and provided by women has evolved through the centuries. At first glance, this article seems to cover Wikipedia's basic standard, and it also has plenty of thorough outlines and sources.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

- The lead section in this article lays a good foundation for the information that will be further described throughout the reading. It is useful in defining the frequently used words that are to come. When compared to a featured article on Wikipedia, it is evident that some more information could be added like general dates and a brief overarching statement to flow into the following subsections.

Content

- The article is broken down into 9 sections, each referring to a specific aspect of women's health care in the Greco-Roman World. They all are full of multiple resources that they pull their information from, and they are all period specific. However, the sources mostly refer to one instance explained in multiple ways, so it would be beneficial to find more accounts of information that lies outside what had already been described. This article needs to go more in-depth with its content (and this is recognized by its status of start-class).

- When wondering if the topic of this article is suitable and relevant, I would argue that it is. It is contributing to the ongoing conversation of medicine by providing insight on the foundation of women's medical practices.

Tone and Balance

- This article carries a neutral tone throughout; everything described is pulled from a cited source that provides credibility to the facts presented. One difficulty when approaching the requirement of presenting ideas from multiple viewpoints is the lack of resources representing every background. When it comes to documentation during the Greco-Roman Era, the ability to keep record lied within the power of the middle and upper-class, so the perspective of lower-class individuals is often left out.

Sources and References

- The author pool of these sources are diverse, each covering an expanse of resources in a collective review that aided in the creation of this article. They are sourced from major public libraries like Britannica and Wiley Online Library. Many of these sources date pre-2010, which means that there are plenty of articles that have been released since then that may cover more knowledge that could provide for this page. This page is definitely in need of some revamping and filling.

Organization and Writing Quality

- The layout and display of this article is concise and straightforward, making the information easily presentable and understandable. There are only a few minor grammatical errors.

Images and Media

- There are 3 pictures displayed throughout the article, and all are relevant to the topic being covered. Two of the items are period-specific and feed into the information being provided. However, the last picture seems random in use because it falls around the year 1800, which is not part of the Greco-Roman era that is being discussed. While it depicts a simple birthing scene, it would be more appropriate to find another period-specific piece that could provide the same introspect.

Talk page discussion

- The talk page for this article is scarce with only one conversation that seemed to be resolved. It is a start-class and low-importance project, and it is a part of WikiProject Medicine.

Overall Impressions

- It is obvious that this article is in its baby steps on providing information for the history of women's health, but a good foundation has been laid for future improvement and addition. I think more sources need to be found and analyzed, and it may even be a benefit to look deeper into the sources that are already being utilized.