User:7mdq/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Witchcraft in the Middle East

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have always heard stories about witchcraft in the Middle East and decided to look to see if it was a viable topic to explore for this assignment. I was stunned at the disparate information available for modern witchcraft despite it being very popular. I decided to focus on Moroccan witchcraft specifically since its something I always heard about growing up.

Evaluate the article
I will be specifically looking at the Modern Middle East section of the article.

The lead section introductory sentence which is concise and straight to the point. However it includes an unnecessary quote as well as the practice of "ceremonial trampling" about the Islamic State conducting executions in Syria which seems very out of place and irrelevant. This should not be included in the lead section and should probably be in its own paragraph.

The content of the section is quite lacking only including three countries (Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey) despite the widespread nature of witchcraft in North Africa and Oman for example. The topics mentioned are relevant to the topic but are severely lacking in representing actual information. The section on Saudi Arabia doesn't include any information on witchcraft which is practiced and only focuses on executions.

The section seems neutral, as it provides information on the topic with the exception of the part on Saudi Arabia which only focuses on executions and allegations, making me believe they may have a grudge on the Saudi government.

The references used in the section vary from good to bad. Some of the references are scholarly sources while others specifically those in the Saudi Arabia part are news articles from sources such as BBC which are reliable but not useful.

The article is organized by country focusing on the countries mentioned previously, but some of the parts don't really flow well and seem to be an information dump rather than a structured representation of information.

No images or media are included.