User:Shayna F/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Kuru (disease)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I had picked this article because I wanted to do a disease that had stemmed from a cultural model. It matters because the people who practiced this tradition, even though they stopped, also can spread via blood, which has made Kuru move to other countries and has an incubation period of anywhere from 10 to over 50 years. My impression was interested and curious. It is an interesting disease and so is the culture that practiced it.

Evaluate the article
This article on Kuru is excellent. The leading section is a good summary of what it talks about in the article, is well written, has a neutral tone, and is pretty straightforward, with no adding or distracting information. All of the content is relevant, up to date, and even has separate definitions for things that people who are not used to biology terms can look at. It adds information about the culture and how they stopped doing their traditions to prevent it from spreading, even when they are immune to it. The overall tone is natural and informative when talking about the disease and culture. They have an "In literature and popular culture" part, where they put how we discuss Kuru in our lives without knowing it with our films, stories, and shows, which I find interesting. The links do work, and the sources support the information presented. The references are reliable and come from multiple medical sites or medical journals. Some of the images are not that helpful, but a nice visual for people who are curious. They are captioned in a way that's easy to understand and they moved the photos to the side as not a distraction for the reading. The conversations on the talk page are people working to help edit or bring ideas on how to make the page better, with some people adding how and why they would like to see this on the page and then making a group effect to add and edit it after everyone is comfortable with it. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine. The overall rating of this article is good. it's very informational with details that help the reader understand the biology concepts better. But I do feel some things might be repetitive and cause the reader to jump around a lot. But, it is well-developed and a good read.