A better description is needed

yeah, without having tested it I don't know whether it might be useful for my sites as it doesn't sound different than page or story to me right now.

+1.
I don't understand what this module is about at all.
What does 'organized and displayed in a centralized location' mean, for example?

I'm not the best thing when it comes to describing things. Do you all have something in mind to replace the current description ?

As for myself, I have no clue what you should say, because I don't know what it does.

I'm just trying this module out right now, and I can't actually figure out what it does. I see a page off the main navigation that lists recent nodes and iterates the taxonomy vocabulary that I selected in the module settings. This seems to indicate to me that all this module does is list recently posted nodes. I don't see how to make it do anything else.

Here's what your description says:

The article module allows for nodes of any type to be organized and displayed in a centralized location. This allows the site administrator to organize nodes of several different types in one place. The user can navigate the nodes by selecting different categories in the taxonomy tree associated with the article module.

As I read through that now, I'm guessing what it's supposed to do is to just create a non-admin equivalent to the Content page, with a list of nodes stacked on top of taxonomy trees.

What I had hoped for in reading that description was a module that would allow me to group selected nodes into an article for presentation. That doesn't seem to be what this does. This seems to only allow "selection" of nodes to be displayed in the sense that you get to "select" the x most recent nodes. And it allows them to be grouped in one location - you don't get to create different views.

So, in the spirit of your question, here's a basic suggestion for a change to description:

The article module enables a single "articles" page which displays the x most recently added nodes in an unordered list, followed by an unordered list representation of a selected taxonomy vocabulary, with terms linked to listings of the corresponding taxonomy categories.

On the chance I'm missing something: Using Drupal 5.1, logged in as user 0.

You basically select some vocabularies from the admin page and something like a taxonomy browser for those vocabularies will be generated. Along with the recent X nodes belonging to this/these vocabularies.

Well, possibly then comment #5 should be included in the main page description. Something along the lines of:

The Article module will allow users to navigate the site by viewing lists of articles (categorised by date) generated from a taxonomy.

Is this something that can't already be done with Views?