User:Ragi02/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Vaccine trial

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Vaccination trials are a very important topic, as a new pandemic may occur at any time, requiring efforts to develop a new vaccine. An important stage to vaccine development is the vaccine trial phase. Once I viewed this article, I was surprised by how little information there was despite being such a relevant topic, especially in recent history as there have been new COVID-19 vaccines and Monkey-pox vaccines.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of this article has ways in which it can be improved. The topic sentence is concise and informative, however the follow up sentences do not mention the overall structure of how the article is formatted. The number of phases of vaccine trials should be mentioned in the lead section.

The content is relevant along with many examples of different vaccines in different stages of trials, however, the amount of content is inconsistent throughout the article. The preclinical stage and phase I of the article have significantly more content than phases II, III, and IV. More up to date information should also be posted as this is an article that should be updated regularly as new vaccines have undergone testing. The most recent source is one government article from the Food and Drug Administration from 2020.

The article does a great job at maintaining a neutral informative tone, as I have not found any opinion or bias within the article.

More sources should be included, especially since vaccine trials should have plenty of scientific sources available online to find data or specific information. Some of the sources are also not working, for example the article by the Food and Drug Administration (source 3) is currently not available.

I believe the organization and quality of writing is great and easy to read. The article is organized by the different stages of clinical trials making the information easy to find. Many links and sources are used throughout, so if a certain topic is not clear it is easy to look for further information.

One of the biggest issues with this page is that there are no images or any form of media throughout the article. Some of the phases of trials may be easier to comprehend if there were supplemental images to go along with the text.

The talk page has a short paragraph discussing the same issue I pointed out with there being not enough content for certain sections, especially due to the high importance of this article. The talk page also points out that the article does not have any information about the failure rates of vaccines in different stages of clinical trials.

Overall, the article has a great starting ground, but much information should be added to the page. The main issues are the lack of general and recent content, the lack of images and media, and the lack of important topics which should be discussed such as the failure rates of vaccines in trial phases. I would currently say the article is underdeveloped.