User:Ablerini/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Industrial and organizational psychology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because Industrial/Organizational psychology is the field I plan to start a career in. Also, it is an important subset of psychology that provides a better understanding of psychology in work and organizational settings. I am very interested in this topic and how it is applied in real-life setting, and I have taken a few different classes related to this field of study. Industrial/Organizational psychology is important because it works to improve the processes within organizations to benefit both the organization and its members.

Evaluate the article
The lead section provides a concise overview of the topic, but does go slightly more into specifics of the topic than is necessary. The article fails to include a brief description of the article's sections which reduces the ability of the lead section to cohesively lay out the structure of the article. The first sentence provides an effective description of the topic.

The content of the article is relatively up-to-date, although there is some room for improvement in this regard. In fields such as psychology, and especially the fast-growing field of Industrial/Organizational psychology, there is new information discovered everyday and new developments are being discovered often. Certain sections could be fleshed out with additional content to match other sections of the article and the article does not address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics.

For the most part, the article is neutral and provides objective descriptions about the topic. The article does not expand on the claim that I/O psychologists must have at least a master's degree, which may not always be the case. It is apparent that there is little to no goal of persuasion here in this article and the writing remains strictly objective.

This article does an excellent job of incorporating peer-reviewed journal articles and other academic sources. However, many of the references are not accompanied by links to the actual documents, although this may be due in part to the inaccessibility of many academic journals and their subscription requirements. There appears to be references that represent a diverse population of individuals and cover a wide variety of perspectives. With 162 references, the article certainly has a high volume of sources even for such a long article.

The article is somewhat well-organized and well-written, although the organization of the article is lacking in a few places. The section headings and subheadings could be more precise and better structured. There are few grammatical errors and the article reads very easily.

There are no images included in the article, which reduces its effectiveness.

There is one active conversation going on in the talk page of the article is about adding an additional section on business psychology. Other than this one topic, there are no other conversations happening on the talk page, indicating very little activity. The article is part of six different WikiProjects, including WikiProject Business, WikiProject Organization, and WikiProject Psychology, among others. These WikiProjects are all rated B-class, high importance.

Overall, the writing of the article is very strong, though the organization could use some improvement. Also, the look and interactiveness of the article could be improved, especially with the addition of images. I would say the article is mostly complete, but could do with the addition of images especially and further elaboration on different subsections.