User:Zoehazel21/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article

This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.

• Name of article: Huntington's disease
• Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate: I chose to pick this article to evaluate as I thought it would be beneficial to first evaluate an article that I am knowledgeable about, that way if there was any mistakes I would be able to fix them. I just thought for my first time doing this it would be more difficult picking a topic that I don't really know much about.

Lead

Guiding questions:

• Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes they concisely and clearly describe the articles topic, I just wish they would have worded it a different way. For example they said "Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an inherited disorder that results in the death of brain cells." I would be more specific in saying it results in the death of nerve cells and add in that sentence that it is a fetal genetic disorder without a cure. Where as they put that a couple of paragraphs down.
• Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? yes
• Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? No
• Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? I would say it's detailed but not overly detailed.

Content

Guiding questions:

• Is the article's content relevant to the topic? yes
• Is the content up-to-date? There are some sources that are out of date, for example one being published in 1984
• Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? no

Tone and Balance

Guiding questions:

• Is the article neutral? yes
• Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? no
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? I think the family section is underrepresented, but this could be me being unintentionally biased
• Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? no

Sources and References

Guiding questions:

• Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? yes, lots of sources provided.
• Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? yes
• Are the sources current? no there was one from 1984, but otherwise yes.
• Check a few links. Do they work? yes

Organization

Guiding questions:

• Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? yes
• Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? none that I could tell
• Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? yes they did a very nice job of this.

Images and Media

Guiding questions:

• Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? yes the pictures really add to the article, I love that they had microscope and MRI images! I do think that it would have also been beneficial to maybe have an MRI scan of a healthy person compare to a person with HD.
• Are images well-captioned? yes
• Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? yes
• Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? yes, they did a very good job with the sizes of the pictures and making more important ones bigger.

Checking the talk page

Guiding questions:

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? there was just one comment about someone asking why information was deleted.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? yes it states this article is of interest to multiple Wikiprojects. It also states it is one of the best articles by the Wiki community.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? we haven't discussed this in class.

Overall impressions

Guiding questions:

• What is the article's overall status? Its a well developed article
• What are the article's strengths? Pictures and the way they present the information, It's easy to follow.
• How can the article be improved? Made suggested earlier, other than those I have no other suggestions.
• How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? Well developed and gets the information across in a fashion that is not confusing. I feel like anyone without any background knowledge of HD would have been able to follow the article without being utterly confused.

Optional activity

• Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes ~~~~

• Link to feedback: Talk:Huntington's disease#Class project!