User:VillanuevaL/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Effects of climate change on human health

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Many times people just think of climate change as any old nuisance. They think about summers becoming hotter and winters not being quite as cold as they used to be. However, there are a lot of consequences that come with climate change. I felt this article is a great way to inform people of the multitude of ways that climate change can impact them that they don't usually think about.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead Section: The lead section of the article is a good introduction to the topic and enumerates a number of ways that climate change can impact human health without being too detailed.

Content: The content of the article is interesting and relevant to the topic. Although it does a good job of getting to the point quickly, I feel the section on excess heat's impact on the human body seems interesting to put as its own section based on the amount of information provided compared to all other sections.

Tone and Balance: Although climate change science is hard to ignore, there is still a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it. Although I wouldn't personally agree with it, the need for a minority point of view does seem to be neglected in the article.

Sources and References: Most of the sources seem to be from reliable sources from first glance. The sources seem to be up-to-date and the links work. There was at least one source that was from a business insider opinion piece that I would need to look into more to see if the information being cited in the article is comes from another reliable source. So a more in depth look might be needed for a number of sources.

Organization and writing quality: The article is both well-written and well-organized. It breaks the sections up well and the paragraphs are split nicely into easily digestible pieces.

Images and Media: There are a handful of images in the article. All of them are caption well enough to know what is being presented and all of the images are relevant to their section.

Talk page discussion: The talk page shows good discussions among users when debating adding, editing, or merging sections. The article is part of 5 WikiProjects including: environment, climate change, globalization, health and fitness, and future studies.

Overall impressions: The article is currently rated as a C-class article. The article has a lot of good content already to show the impacts of climate change. There are some opportunities to add better connections between these impacts and how those truly impact human health since that is the ultimate goal of the article. I feel the article has been developed well to this point, but there are some opportunities to expand certain sections and also do a better job of linking the existing sections to the impact on human health instead of just general impacts.