Talk:Timeline of global health/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 09:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

This article surprisingly provides no historical perspective before 1700: what about Dioscorides's thousand-odd medicines (mainly from medicinal plants) described in detail in De Materia Medica, including many drugs known to be effective? The article clearly requires a section on medical advances in ancient times, for instance including Medicine in ancient Rome, to begin to counter the article's recentism. The articles on History of medicine and History of surgery contain many further suggestions that may help to bring this article towards the standard required for GA. In particular, the article is insufficiently "broad in its coverage", failing to address all "the main aspects" of the topic, criterion 3a. The article is also essentially a list, and as such is ineligible for GA in any case: once revised, it should be submitted as a featured list candidate. For both these reasons, it would not be appropriate to continue with a GA review now. I hope the suggestions here will help to improve the article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]