User:Neelkoladiya/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: Bioethics (link)
• Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.
  • Being biology major ethics in biology is one key factor in my professional life.

Lead

Guiding questions:

• Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
  • Yes
• Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
  • No
• Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
  • Lead does not have any information about the article
• Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?
  • Lead is concise

Lead evaluation

Lead is overly concise and does not include any information about the article.

Content

Guiding questions:

• Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
  • The article is not relevant to topic of bioethics. it mostly talks about medical ethics and the way it was affected by religion, especially Islam.
• Is the content up-to-date?
  • most of the content is up to date.
• Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?
  • Most of the content in this article should be placed under the topic - "effects of religion on medical ethics"

Content evaluation

Content in the article is not relevant to the topic. Most of the content is more relevant to the topic of “religion and medical ethics”.  Also, content in the article was all over the place it's not really organized and there is no flow between different paragraph.

Tone and Balance

Guiding questions:

• Is the article neutral?
  • yes article is neutral
• Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
  • No, all the claims are mostly neutral.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
  • Yes, eastern religious point of view was overrepresented whereas the Western religious and scientific point of view was not very underrepresented.
• Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?
  • No article does not attempt to persuade the reader in favor of any position.

Tone and balance evaluation

The tone of the article was overall balanced but certain sections in the article were really underrepresented compared to others.

Sources and References

Guiding questions:

• Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
  • Yes, most of the facts are backed up by a reliable source.
• Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
  • Sources are thorough and they do reflect the available literature on the topic.
• Are the sources current?
  • Most of the sources are current
• Check a few links. Do they work?
  • Yes, the link in the citation on the article work.

Sources and references evaluation

Most of the references are from the reliable source and link properly to the article.

Organization

Guiding questions:

• Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
  • The flow of the article was not were clear and can be confusing.
• Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
  • No
• Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?
  • The article was broken down on section based on the main point.

Organization evaluation

The flow of the article was not very clear.

Images and Media

Guiding questions:

• Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
  • No images where included.
• Are images well-captioned?
  • not applicable
• Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
  • not applicable
• Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?
  • not applicable

Images and media evaluation

No image were included in the article.

Checking the talk page

Guiding questions:

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
  • The political and religion question about the topic is being discussed behind the scene as there is not enough information provided on those topics
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
  • The article is part of many wikiprojects and is rated as start class.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Overall impressions

Guiding questions:

• What is the article's overall status?
  • The article need to be reworked on.
• What are the article's strengths?
  • The Article presents the information without changing or manipulating it with a good level of detail.
• How can the article be improved?
  • The content needs to be made more topic appropriate and different point of view need to be presented.
• How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?
  • The article is poorly developed with a lack of diversity .

Overall evaluation

The article need to work on to increase content diversity and well as level of organization need to be improved.

Optional activity

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