User:WIKI20220/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Affordable Care Act

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I selected this article to review because it is highly important to many people. The Affordable Care Act has changed many people's way of life by allowing more and more individuals to get insured and thus making Medicare more easily and widely accessible. My preliminary impression of the Affordable Care Act was that it is set up in an ordered fashion with defining and providing an overview for those who may not know much about this topic or for those who know about the topic but can be further educated and informed of other details and qualifications. Taking a first look at this article, it can be seen that there are many well-developed topics under each subcategory with given data and tables for the reader to follow. This allowed myself to better follow the article along with the addition of media to accompany the reading. The Affordable Care Act was established so that it would provide many more benefits to those who did not have any Medicare, or that it would provide greater coverage to people who had minimal coverage.

Lead section
Upon reading and evaluating this article, it provided a concise description of what the Affordable Care Act is and described the topic and how it was brought about in the house and senate. The writer made the lead section well enough to get a brief overview before heading into the major sections.

Content
The article did a decent job in adding the contents in major and subcategories that were most relevant to the main topic itself. This wikipedia article consists of 12 major categories with subcategories underneath. The article addresses different populations and has up to date content.

Tone and Balance
The writer of this article did not impose any heavy biased point of views and did not attempt to persuade the reader for or against this act. There are few instances of describing the minority viewpoint however, none of the sections were overrepresented or underrepresented.

Sources and references
Each category is backed up with reliable sources and they are all explained thoroughly in nature. Much of the sources are from government websites which allows for a more reliable source to use for the Affordable Care Act. The sources included are websites, articles, videos, peer reviewed research studies for data, etc. Overall, this section is also well put together as each fact is accompanied by citations.

Organization and writing quality
The organization of this article was set up in a way that was easy for the reader to follow. It is easy to read and the sections that are broken down make it relatively easier to understand the different sections such as provisions, legislative history, impact, public opinion, political aspects, criticism, implementation, in culture, as well as a category for the references and external sources. The source seems to be grammatically correct and spelling error free.

Images and Media
The images included throughout the article are captioned and laid out visually on the right side in which it does not interfere with the rest of the article. It allows for an appealing layout so as you read the article, the images pose as a way to reference the important dates such as when the House passed the bill, when the president signed the bill, as well as other important individuals that were members of the upbringing of this act.

Talk page discussion
The talk page under this article proved to be between the writer and a medical student who wanted to make provisions. The provisions were to add systematic reviews and analyses to provide more information among sections with rates in regard to demographics and mortality. This article is part of multiple WikiProjects such as WikiProject Health and fitness, WikiProject Economics Show, WikiProject Law, WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject U.S./Government, WikiProject U.S. Congress WikiProject Taxation, WikiProject Science Policy. Most of which are Rated C-class and mid importance while Taxation is inactive.

Overall Impressions
The article's overall status is a “C” grade however the article is written in great depth with data. This stands out since the writer used many sources of reliable information. The article’s strengths coincide with the great main and subcategory takeaways. It has a great amount of data and research to back up relevant information. The article in its entirety seems to be well developed and written in a way that is easy to follow and understand, as mentioned, with the data tables, graphs, charts, etc..