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Article evaluation

The article on the Virgin Soil Epidemic offers a brief description of the term and its origins. In class, we spent more time looking specifically at what the Virgin soil epidemic was and its impact on the Indigenous people of Canada. Unlike our class discussion, this article goes into the history of the phrase and its origins with minimal discussion as to the event itself. The article is well-written, from a neutral standpoint as it should be, keeping its contents relevant to the topic it discusses and its overall message brief. This article is a part of the Wiki Medicine Project and is rated as ‘start’ on the quality scale, meaning that it provides some useful information, but it is incomplete, and more research will be required on the part of the reader. It is also rated as being low-importance, likely because it is not seen as being relevant to today’s research. The links all work and lead to informative and useful Wikipedia articles that help increase the readers' knowledge on the topic. The article also uses strong, scholarly articles. However, due to the length of the article, there is a high number of sources and links when compared with the rest of the text. Overall, the article has the potential to be a great source for the modern historian once it is complete.