User:Xlbdc/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Type 2 diabetes)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because I am taking physiology this semester and on of the big topics we will be learning about is Diabetes Mellitus. This article is important because diabetes is one of the many diseases that does not have a cure. It is important to be educated on this topic to know how to help someone if their blood sugar is high or drops really low.

Evaluate the article
This article has a good lead section that describes the overview of what type 2 diabetes is and what happens to your body. All content is relevant to the topic, discusses different groups that are more likely to get diabetes, goes into great detail. I think that there is some information on how to avoid getting diabetes should be removed. There are also a few tips that I feel such as switching certain things in your diet can prevent getting diabetes but that is not always true. The tone and balance in this article is also great. There is nothing shaming people for having diabetes or any insensitive content in my opinion. This article has some pretty dated sources but there is also a handful of sources that are from less than 4 years ago. From what it looks like to me the sources seem to be pretty reliable. The sources come from books, articles, websites, and clinical studies. All the links I tried worked and took me to the source that was listed. There is good organization. sections for each subtopic on diabetes. Maybe a few grammatical errors but not many. Spelling looks good to me. The images on the page are all relevant they are of diagrams, charts, medications, and maps that have something to do with diabetes. The talk page has some criticism on this article. There are a few comments on the information on how to avoid type 2 diabetes being slightly insensitive and incorrect. I agree with some of the the topics being brought up on the talk page, it also helped me see some issues that I over looked at first. My overall impression of this article is that it has great information overall explains type 2 diabetes but once you start to look into the sub topics there is some incorrect information that should be fixed. I do think that this article was overall developed out well and there was a lot of work that went into trying to make this article complete.