User:Robersea/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
McMurray test

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I wanted to read an article related to the evolution of medicine and diagnosis across history that also provided information to me on current clinical practices. I first searched through the Medicine Wikigroup page until I got to the section on clinical information. I then looked through the different procedures until I found one that interested me due to my unfamiliarity with the topic. This Wiki page was interesting because it was extremely short but utilized multiple different sources and research articles, so I thought it would be interesting to evaluate.

Evaluate the article
Although this article is short, it includes a majority of the relevant information. The opening section only consists of two sentences; one describing what the McMurray test is used for and one describing the specific injury that the McMurray test identifies. The lead section, however, does not describe further information on the subject or comment on the sections that will explored in later paragraphs, so it is slightly lacking. The following paragraphs talk about the procedure of the McMurray test, the history of the test and Thomas Porter McMurray, and the statistics of successful diagnosis with the test. Although this data is relevant, it does not provide the information in an easily digestible order. It also does not properly explain the different aspects of the paragraphs due to how short the information is. Additionally, it is lacking information on the current state of the McMurray and it is used or has been adapted in modern medicine, a topic that I believe is extremely relevant and fascinating. Positive aspects of the article include the fact that the article is neutral and speaks objective facts, and the information in the article is cited at a regular consistency with professional sources. Finally, the talk page of the article is very lacking, with only a small discussion about merging pages on similar subjects.