Toxic encephalopathy was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | |||||||||||||
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This page is currently a stub. Need much expanding to do this topic justice.-- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 00:58, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
After a quick reading of the article, as it is really short I am sorry to say that I believe it is very far away yet from being a good article. A good medical article is described as "Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia" and Fetal alcohol syndrome is given as a GA example (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Assessment)in the medicine field. Just a quick look is enough to see the differences between the latter and this article. I would order my comments following the GA criteria. My greatest concerns are with its broad coverage of the topic.
Well written: Language is vague in most sections. As an example: "Research is being done by organizations such as NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) on what substances can cause encephalopathy, why they do this, and eventually how to protect, treat, and cure the brain from this condition". Such sentences could be the introduction of a longer paragraph, but they can not be all info in a section in a GA.
Factually accurate: The article is referenced with mid-quality references: most of them come from well known organizations and they are reliable to some extent; however references from review articles in peer-reviewed journals are preferred for medical articles. (See WP:MEDMOS and Wikipedia:Reliable sources (medicine-related articles)). This is the case of pages such as those from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Other webs are probably much less reliable as the Fela law site: it is a private commercial site which aims to attract railroad workers to sue their employers. The latter kind should be changed by better references
Neutral: The problems with sources pointed above make it really hard to see if the article is neutral. I doubt for example that naming so prominently railroad workers passes WP:WEIGHT. Once better references are found the article would have to be factually checked and balanced.
Stable: Seems stable enough
Ilustrated: Images are always difficult to find but I believe that with some effort some more other images could be brought up.
Broad in its coverage-organization of the info: My main problem with the article is regarding this criterium. The article lacks important info on the disease which does not permit to have an overall image of it (The GA criterium states: "it addresses the main aspects of the topic"). Compliance with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)is a necessity to cover all the important sections in a disorder article. Not present sections are pathophisiology, prevention-screening,and epidemiology. Additionally some of the present sections are so short (Only a sentences) that they hardly can be considered to cover all important info on the disease. All sections should be improved with a lot of more content and those non yet existing should be created.
Attributtion and plagiarism: an article can not (mostly) be made from a copy and paste from the NINDS website. Additionally the fact that their info is in the public domain does not mean that it can be copied verbatim since it is still considered plagiarism. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches.
Without a much broader coverage of the topic and better sources in the lines proposed I believe the article does not comply with the GA criteria. -- Garrondo ( talk) 14:36, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Could somebody PLEASE translate the article on toxic encephalopathy into german and post it on wikipedia.de. Together with many colleagues I'm suffering from toxic encephalopathy after chemical exposition and understandable information in german is rather scarce. Many thanks !!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.123.217.203 ( talk) 10:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Toxic encephalopathy was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | |||||||||||||
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Current status: Former good article nominee |
This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This page is currently a stub. Need much expanding to do this topic justice.-- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 00:58, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
After a quick reading of the article, as it is really short I am sorry to say that I believe it is very far away yet from being a good article. A good medical article is described as "Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia" and Fetal alcohol syndrome is given as a GA example (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Assessment)in the medicine field. Just a quick look is enough to see the differences between the latter and this article. I would order my comments following the GA criteria. My greatest concerns are with its broad coverage of the topic.
Well written: Language is vague in most sections. As an example: "Research is being done by organizations such as NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) on what substances can cause encephalopathy, why they do this, and eventually how to protect, treat, and cure the brain from this condition". Such sentences could be the introduction of a longer paragraph, but they can not be all info in a section in a GA.
Factually accurate: The article is referenced with mid-quality references: most of them come from well known organizations and they are reliable to some extent; however references from review articles in peer-reviewed journals are preferred for medical articles. (See WP:MEDMOS and Wikipedia:Reliable sources (medicine-related articles)). This is the case of pages such as those from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Other webs are probably much less reliable as the Fela law site: it is a private commercial site which aims to attract railroad workers to sue their employers. The latter kind should be changed by better references
Neutral: The problems with sources pointed above make it really hard to see if the article is neutral. I doubt for example that naming so prominently railroad workers passes WP:WEIGHT. Once better references are found the article would have to be factually checked and balanced.
Stable: Seems stable enough
Ilustrated: Images are always difficult to find but I believe that with some effort some more other images could be brought up.
Broad in its coverage-organization of the info: My main problem with the article is regarding this criterium. The article lacks important info on the disease which does not permit to have an overall image of it (The GA criterium states: "it addresses the main aspects of the topic"). Compliance with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)is a necessity to cover all the important sections in a disorder article. Not present sections are pathophisiology, prevention-screening,and epidemiology. Additionally some of the present sections are so short (Only a sentences) that they hardly can be considered to cover all important info on the disease. All sections should be improved with a lot of more content and those non yet existing should be created.
Attributtion and plagiarism: an article can not (mostly) be made from a copy and paste from the NINDS website. Additionally the fact that their info is in the public domain does not mean that it can be copied verbatim since it is still considered plagiarism. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches.
Without a much broader coverage of the topic and better sources in the lines proposed I believe the article does not comply with the GA criteria. -- Garrondo ( talk) 14:36, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Could somebody PLEASE translate the article on toxic encephalopathy into german and post it on wikipedia.de. Together with many colleagues I'm suffering from toxic encephalopathy after chemical exposition and understandable information in german is rather scarce. Many thanks !!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.123.217.203 ( talk) 10:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)