User:Socal2025/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Vaccine equity

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
We have been discussing the idea of COVID-19 vaccine access and its relation to wealth inequality in class, so I wanted to find an article that addressed the issue of "vaccine apartheid." I was redirected to this article about vaccine equity. My initial impression of this article is that it seems like a work in progress; this makes sense as COVID vaccines have only been available for a short time and are likely the reason for increased interest in this topic.

Evaluate the article
The article begins with a clear, concise lead paragraph that contains most of the main points of the piece. However, there is a COVID-19 section in the article that is not mentioned in the lead. The content in the article is relevant to the issue and up-to-date with many sources being only a few months old. The information appears factual and does not contain any fringe beliefs about vaccines and vaccine access. All sources are properly cited and the vast majority come from academic journals, governmental organizations, and well-respected NGOs like Doctors Without Borders. The links I checked worked and led back to the corresponding sources. The article is clearly written with no obvious spelling or grammar mistakes and separate sections and subsections for important facets of the issue (Intellectual Property and its application to COVID-19). There are no images or other supplementary media. According to the Talk page, this article is part of both the Medicine and COVID-19 WikiProjects, and its quality is rated as Start-Class. No discussions are visible on the Talk page as a result.

Overall, I think that my evaluation of this article as a work in progress was correct. It contains a great deal of factual information from good, current sources, but it is clear that interest in this article has grown dramatically since the start of the pandemic. I think that this article could be developed further by adding some supplemental media, such as images or maps to represent vaccine access in different areas, and possibly by adding further detail to the lead paragraph.