User:WISE Physics/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Sexual assault

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because sexual violence and assault is something which has impacted my personal life greatly. Sexual assault disproportionately affects marginalized groups and is ubiquitous across culture and geography. My preliminary impression of this article is that, while it is lengthy, it still misses some major components about sexual assault.

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.)

I found the lead section to be insufficient because it uses part of the term in its definition, leading to ambiguity; specifically, it describes "sexual assault" in terms of "sexually touch[ing]" without actually defining what constitutes said sexual touching.

The content of the article seems to be incomplete. Most obviously, the subsection of sexual assault "by jurisdiction" is clearly lacking as it only includes seven jurisdictions, although there are numerous others. Additionally, the article does not list Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or Rape-Trauma Syndrome (RTS) in the section "Emotional and psychological effects," which is one of the most notable psychological impacts of sexual assault. It also failed to consider forcible sodomy which some jurisdictions consider distinct from rape. I did find that it was interesting that the article contained a section titled "Economic effects" because I have never considered this aspect of sexual assault before.

The article's tone and balance were fair with a few exceptions. Specifically, it fails to consider gender outside of a binary. For example, it states that "emergency contraceptive medications are offered to women raped by men," while it should technically state that emergency contraceptives are offered to fertile people with vaginas in the case that they are vaginally penetrated by a penis. This offers a much more neural and inclusive prospective (for example, a trans woman, while a woman, may not need contraception; additionally, rape may not necessarily be vaginal).

This article could benefit from some organizational reconsideration. For example, it could contain one section titled "effects" with subsections psychological/emotional, physical, economic. The section "medical and psychological treatment of victims" could be condensed into the psychological/emotional and physical subsections.

While much of the article does contain citations, there are several instances throughout in which factual claims are made without any supporting citation. Grammatically, the article contains minor errors throughout. The images and media contained in the article were, for the most part, largely ineffective. For example, the image "US troops in Afghanistan hold a 5K run/walk for Sexual Assault Awareness Month" adds little to the article. The graphs included, though they would otherwise be useful, fail to contain axes labels, rendering them unreadable; they also contain no accompanying citation.