User:Polar Bear Enthusiast/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Adrenal gland

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.)

I chose this topic as it is one of the endocrine glands we went over in my Anatomy class and is a key component to our endocrine system as it releases different hormones in response to stress. My preliminary impression of the article is that it goes into a great detail of the adrenal gland and that it describes it to a fine point.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of this article isn't quite short and to the point but with how complicated our adrenal gland is, it is warranted as to how long the lead section is as to summarize the major sections and topics that are discussed through out the article. The content is fairly up to date with most sources being from 2015 and one source being from 2022, but seeing as our adrenal gland isn't much to change unless anatomists discover something new on the gland, which I feel warrants the lack of articles/sources being from the past couple of years. There are, however, an abundance of articles/sources none the less, the total coming in at a whopping 55 sources. The articles uses a very neutral tone and does not try to persuade the reader in any way, I also feel that there are not any ways to persuade someone in this article as it is about the adrenal gland which there is no real argument or side to choose about it unless arguing if its the most important gland or what not, but this is not the case for this article. The article is very organized, with the sub topics being very organized under each heading. The article even delves into the different diseases and illnesses that can arise to the adrenal gland causing homeostasis to go out of whack and the different symptoms they cause and why they happen. Overall, I would say this article is very strong and has little room to improve unless, like I said, an anatomist or someone discovers something new on the gland.