User:Libbynoelle11/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Women in medicine

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it gives an overview of our course and it is cool to see some of the topics we have discussed in class. This article matters because it outlines the history of women in medicine, spanning from actual female physicians to the female health practitioners behind the scenes. My first impression of this article is that it looks credible, well thought out, and informative.

Evaluate the article
The lead section gives an introductory sentence that concisely and accurately describes the topic of women in medicine as well as a brief description of the major sections. It does not include information that is not present in the article. Overall, the lead is concise and a great introduction to the topic.

The content of the article is relevant to the topic because all of it relates back to the history of women in medicine and it is also up-to-date because the latest entry is from October 2021. I think that there is not any content missing, since this is supposed to serve as a basic overview of women in medicine. Because all of the content is relevant to the topic, I do not think there is content that does not belong. While the article includes descriptions of women in Medieval Europe, Medieval Islamic world, and China, it fails to include African medicine and Early Modern Caribbean medicine as we discussed in class, thus not completely filling the equity gap. However, the article does seem to cover the gap when talking about modern medicine.

The tone and balance of the article are overall very neutral as it only acts to describe the history of females in medicine and not to argue their importance or unimportance. There is not really a debate over the history, so no side is under- or overrepresented.

The sources and references of the article seem to working and up-to-date. The links to citations work and the sources cited properly support the claims in the article. Additionally, all of the sources are current (some being from 2021) thorough, and written by diverse authors. It also looks like these sources are a good mix between scientific articles and popular sources.

The organization and writing quality of the article is well-written, free of grammatical and spelling errors, and well-organized. Additionally, the images and media of the article are relevant and act to enhance the understanding of the topic of women in medicine. Each picture contains a caption and citation, which adheres to Wikipedia's copyright regulations, and are visually appealing.

The Talk page discussion shows that the article is part of a Wiki Education Foundation and part of many WikiProjects, all of which are rated B-class and high-importance. The Talk page mostly consists of some ideas about information to add that is either new or just had not been previously included.

With all of that being said, my overall impressions of the article were very strong. I think it was a well-thought out, informative, and credible article. I think it is organized very well and does a great job of overviewing the broad topic of women in medicine. It could use some additional information about women in other countries besides Europe, China, and Islamic world, which seems to be addressed in the Talk page. Overall, I would assess the article's completeness as well developed.