User:Skoodles/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Paleopathology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate the article about Paleopathology because it was briefly mentioned in my Plagues and People class and I thought it would be interesting to read into with a critical eye.

Evaluate the article
Overall a very strong start-class article that seems to provide good, basic knowledge on paleopathology, but seems to lacking in some spots.


 * The examples of The Black Death, Tuberculosis, and Syphilis tend to tunnel-vision on the effects in Europe and North America. I understand that it is possible that there might just not be enough sources on the relationship between paleopathology and a major disease outside of these two continents, and I do not fault the article’s writers if this is the case.
 * This might be more of personal preference but the image of the paleopathologies the Dilophosaurus seems to be placed a tad weirdly next to the Syphilis section. I would probably put an image that more closely relates to the section and move the Dilophosaurus image to the history section.