User:KinsleyD/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Arlene Halko

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I followed the rabbit hole through the Academic disciplines category and found my way to important LGBT scientists. I chose one at random and came across Arlene Halko. At first glance this article is pretty cut and dry. There is limited insight into her life, but most, if not all, of her accolades and accomplishments are listed.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is concise but detailed. It immediately introduces the article's topic and provides reasons of her importance: medical physicist and gay rights advocate. It also includes a reason as to why she deserves a high honor.

The article seems pretty balanced. The lead and early life sections are shorter than her career category, emphasizing all the works and deeds she did. The article also includes a publications section which highlights her works and shows how other people are also using it. The career section is lengthy, but it jumps around like a bullet-list and does not consistently feel like you're reading a paragraph. The personal life section seems a little lacking in not having information prior to the last two decades of her life.

There seems to be no grammatical or spelling errors.

Most of the references are being pulled from Chicago-born or Chicago-published companies, like Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. The links seem to be working, and some of them even have images of Halko that could be used.

From the talk page, the article doesn't seem like a lively place. It is considered start-class and of low-importance, and ongoing discussions are not present. This article was also created during a Wikipedia Pride Month event in 2021 which means it may have been "forgotten" about. The article also doesn't include any images or pictures of the scientist nor any of her publications.

This is a pretty basic character article. It has a lot of history to it, but an image would really help. Finding out more of her personal life and childhood could also help the overall feeling of the article.