User:Lucallespinoza/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: (Healthcare in Costa Rica)
 * I have chosen to evaluate this article because it provides essential information for my research regarding healthcare delivery in Costa Rica.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation
Although the lead does contain sentences that convey a summary of the article, it fails to describe the article's major sections that it laters only introduces in the article's contents. Instead, it only discusses a few important statements about Costa Rica's health system, which the article engages with further throughout its different sections. Overall, I believe the lead contains an interesting introduction but might be too concise in that it does not describe the article's major sections.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?
 * Does the article deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps? Does it address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics?

Content evaluation
The article's content is thoroughly relevant to the topic of health care in Costa Rica, and to all means, is up to the date with the country's situation. However, it might be missing some information regarding how Costa Rica's "universal" healthcare is actually only available to Costa Rican residents, because it gives off the idea that everyone in the nation has access to healthcare when in reality, there is a high percentage of immigrants, from countries such as Nicaragua, who reside in Costa Rica and yet have no access to healthcare services. Therefore, the article somewhat fails to consider Wikipedia's equity gaps in that it does not address the underrepresented population of impoverished Nicaraguan immigrants who live in Costa Rica and have no access to what the article calls "universal health care".

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
The article is neutral and does not attempt to persuades readers in any way, but it does only convey a foreign viewpoint of Costa Rica's health system, from someone who has neither experienced the public healthcare services that the country provides, and who fails to recognize how the country's immigrant population has no access to these services.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Are the sources written by a diverse spectrum of authors? Do they include historically marginalized individuals where possible?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
All of the facts in the article are backed up by reliable secondary sources which all thoroughly reflect the information provided in the article. The links for the sources are functioning links that redirect you to the scholarly source of which that information is from, and even though most of them are somewhat current, there are a few that could be considered outdated such as when it cites an article written in 1987.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
The article is very well-written, grammatically and content-wise, and it is very organized with a clear division of sections and a proper description of each of its topics.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
The article contain only one image which depicts the logo of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social) which is the governmental body that is in charge of the country's healthcare system. The image is well-captioned, properly cited, and is laid out in a space where it makes sense within the text, which is right when the article introduces the Social Security Fund.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
There is only one conversation in the article's talk page which is basically from an user which added information about Costa Rica's private insurance plans, and another user responded saying that his citation was using an unreliable website, which was from a Costa Rican tourism agency, and then the other user added additional information about the country's insurance plans and some new scholarly citations about it. The article is part of WikiProject Medicine and WikiProject Costa Rica, and has been rated as start-class on the project's quality scale. Although Wikipedia views this article as informatively weak, with sources that are to some extent unreliable, I perceive this article as a great starting point to researching Costa Rica's healthcare, because it provides adequate general information about the topic and sources that I can explore if I want to do an in-depth research about it.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
The article is overall a start-class article, with strengths in its organization, vocabulary and topic summaries, and it could be improved with more reliable and updated sources. The article is somewhere between well-developed and poorly developed, because although the content is important and provides just enough information, it could be strengthened by some additional research and delve into issues further, such as the population of immigrants in Costa Rica and how their healthcare is affected.

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