User:Mitch hoopes/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ebola history and effects

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

Evaluate the article:
Topic Ebola:

Western African Ebola virus epidemic:

Content:

The content for this article relevant to the topic, it goes in depth explaining the factual data of specific areas of the outbreaks along with specific dates. Mortality rates and an overview of the disease, the epidemiology and transmission rates during the viral spread.

Although the article is older, the content seems to be up to date on the factual data, compared to other sources.

Marginalization did occur, as with most global health issues in poorer regions the poor seemed to be marginalized. Examples of this are poor infrastructure, unemployment rates, number of health care workers and education are examples of this neglect.

Improvements in the article, this article seemed to be very solid from the aspects of information and a broad array on specific topics and impacts of the virus both local and world-wide effects, ranging from health to economic effects.

Tone:

The article seemed to be neutral for the most part. It was very fact based and seemed to not have much biased opinion. The only potential bias could be the fact that the article is based from a western point of view.

The sources were appropriate for background information collected for this article. The sources referenced gave good solid data to contribute towards the article.

One of the only issues I had with the article was that many of the sources were from the WHO, there are other sources from areas such as Europe and Latin areas, which gives the article credence. But it could be biased from a western point of view.

Conversations:

There are a few wiki projects related to this article.

Sources:

Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160126084948/http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2016/executive-board-138/en/ January 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016.

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137091/1/roadmapsitrep22Oct2014_eng.pdf

Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. Paul Farmer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. ISBN 978-0-374-23432-4