User:Mtesta4/Choose an Article

Article Selection

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

Article title: "Chief physician"; This is the article that I evaluated first that I am really keen on possibly working with. I attached my initial evaluation below.
Article Evaluation: Original Evaluation
Sources: Chief Medical Officers; List of Fictional doctors

Option 2

Article title: "Association for the History of Chiropractic"
Article Evaluation: This article is a stub about a medical organization about chiropractics. The content is rather minimal as the topic is simply defined. It is indeed written neutrally because there is no argument being made or biased being displayed. The links on this article are is rather irrelevant. For example, the words "scholarly" and "journal" have wikipedia links attached to them which does not in any way further the information presented about this topic. Despite it being small, the article is solely based on one reference. The citation is valid however not reliable. It is a link to the supposed website for this association but it is certainly not up to date. For example, under Annual Conferences, in bright red and bolded letters says "NEW" with the dates May 21-23 in 2010 listed. Additionally, this article is deemed by Wikipedia as an orphan, meaning no other articles are linked to it. The Talk Page is interesting as well; it categorizes this topic as a potential member of three WikiProjects: Medicine, Chiropractic, and Organizations. All of them rate the article as a Stub-Class and as low-importance on the project's importance scale. The minimal information in the article does, however, have some content worthy of potential images. Ultimately, the article needs expansion. To make this article better, I would firstly do research on the topic to find if there is any notable information to include. I would look for relevant photos, remove unnecessary links and add needed sources, hopefully to increase the ratings and possibly enter it into at least one of its WikiProjects, possibly Chiropractic.
Sources: Website : this website is a lot more up to date, even including photos and journal entries.; Informative Site about the Association; Studies of Chiropractic

Option 3

Article title: "Hospitalism"
Article Evaluation: This topic of this article is "Hospitalism", a mainly infantile disease. It is deemed a stub by the Medical and Psychiatry WikiProjects. There are several things wrong with this article. Firstly, the content is relevant but not sufficient. Other than stating the definition of the disease and minimal background and history, the article lacks structure and organization. It is, however, written neutrally, except for the inclusion of an un-cited sentence that seems to be opinion based. Each claim, therefore, does not have a citation. The opinionated statement doesn't have a "citation needed" bracket which makes me wonder where it is taken from. The sentence prior does have that bracket, indicating that the sentence about the particular cause of the disease may not be true or may be lacking accuracy. her The actual references are however not the most reliable. One of them is another wikipedia article titled "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" which has no relative affiliation. Another is to a blog-like article about "Hospitalism" which is used to cite its supposed origins. The lead introduces the topic in an odd way, putting parenthesis after "Hospitalism" as an alternate name, saying "anaclitic depression in its sublethal form" and this seems to erupt the Talk Page. One user claims that the two are so similar that their respective pages should be merged while another claims worries that viewers will equate anaclitic depression with a subtype of depression, when they do not believe it is true. They even include a source that supports this. What I would do to improve this article, aside from expanding it, is clarify the citations, find better ones, take some of the suggestions from the Talk Page and implement them, possibly include significant images, and find better sources to expand on the topic.
Sources: American Academy of Pediatrics; Rene A. Spitz (psychotherapist who coined term); Relevance to Psychiatry WikiProject; Anaclitic Depression

Option 4

Article title: "Padded cell"
Article Evaluation: This article is about padded cells in psychiatric hospitals. It is rated a stub article by the psychology WikiProject. There is more content than the previous articles, however, it is definitely not entirely reliable. The top of the article has an improvement box that states that the article might contain original research which is not allowed for medical articles. Therefore, the content might not be entirely neutral. The article is littered with "citation needed" brackets which indicates unreliable citations. The Talk Page is extremely interesting. One User spends a long time expressing their frustration about the inaccuracies that this page displays regarding psychiatric care and the reality behind padded cells. Maybe this article could be improved by having a section about the logistics behind them and how they do not always work. That can be done in a non-biased but in an informational way. Another user talks about seclusion and implementing that into this article as that is an integral side effect to this treatment. This article does have two photos, both with captions, but only one recent photo. Two of the references go to PDFS, one a rather extensive one on the Mental Health Act and the other leads to a page that can no longer be displayed. There are also some structural issues; one section has several bullet points that do not all grammatically fit with the ending sentence. This can be edited probably best into prose. My goal to improve this page would be to find better citations and include unbiased, informational knowledge that is omitted and attempt to fix any inaccuracies.
Sources
Controversy

Option 5

Article title: "Christus (statue)"
Article Evaluation: This article has the most content than the others I have evaluated which makes this process a little more difficult. It is non-biased, citations are reliable and relevant, however, something that I want to consider including is the relationship between medicine and religion. This article refers to a replica of this statue being featured at Johns Hopkins Hospital but there is not external links suggesting the relationship between these two things. I think creating a subsection or additional links would add to this article.
Sources
Religion and Medicine
Mayo Clinic