User:Man I love frogs/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Food desert

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to review this article because food deserts are an area of academic interest for me.

Food deserts matter and deserve attention because they negatively impact the health of entire communities.

My preliminary impression of the article is that it's full of information and seems well-written.

Lead section
The lead is succinct and provides a good overview of the subject matter.

Content
The information included in the article all appears to be relevant to the article topic. I don't see anything that is missing or could be added.

There are notable equity gaps associated with food deserts and the article appears to describe those appropriately.

Tone and Balance
The article has a neutral tone devoid of bias.

Viewpoints included in the article are balanced and do not distract from the article's subject.

Sources and References
Many of the sources I checked are peer-reviewed articles. This information is generally reliable and has been thoroughly reviewed.

There are a substantial amount of sources (121 total) with a mix of many authors and publishers.

Most of the links work, but I did come across one that did not.


 * Reference 62: Messer, Ellen; Ross, Elizabeth M (2002). "Talking to Patients About Food Insecurity". 5 (2). Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2021.

Organization and writing quality
The article is readable and I didn't find any grammatical errors. The organization and sequence of information seems logical.

Images and Media
The article includes images that help readers to visualize information. They are well-captioned and clearly relevant.

Talk page discussion
This article is part of the Food and drink WikiProject and the Sociology WikiProject. It has a C-Class rating.

Going through the history on the Talk page, there is more than one conversation about the relevance of sections to the article. Beyond article format, there are discussions over why food deserts develop and how that should be incorporated into the article.

Overall impressions
This is a well-developed page that has seen years of revisions and additions. The article is a good source of information on its subject material.

A strength of this article is its insight into social determinants of health and its relation to food deserts.

The only part of the article I see that could be improved is the section name of "Implications for self care". To me, self-care has connotations of individual action. However, this section discusses factors which are often out of individual control such as access to transportation, geographic location, and health literacy.

I think the article could benefit from changing the name of the section to better represent its contents or creating a new section to house these items.