User:Acb67529760/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Witchcraft

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this topic because I find it to be an interesting subject matter. And, in our courses discussion, the concept of witchcraft and the brutal trial that occurred disproportionate affecting women holds merit.

Evaluate the article
The article is very well organized, with clear and logically organized lead sections. It's a fairly extensive article covering everything from modern beliefs around witchcraft and non-western interpretations and utilizations of "witchcraft." The content is diverses and does a good job of representing beliefs surrounding witchcraft from different cultures and religions. I found the article to have a neutral tone and do a good job of explaining the facts and events without imposing a viewpoint. The article was very well sourced, with around 270 different sources cited and an extensive further reading list. In my reading, I saw that nearly every piece of relevant information on the page was connected to a source. The article had good usage of images and other media. Images were helpful, relevant, and well captioned. Overall they really added to the learning experience of this article. The Talk page of this article reveals there is some great disagreement regarding that discussion of witchcraft as used for dark purposes. Individuals, who today identify themselves as Wicca, take offense to the perpetuation of witchcraft as a dark and dangerous, at times even evil, practices. However, other authors argue that it is pertinent to include historical interpretations of witchcraft, even if negative, as they are vital in explaining the hatred, fear, and anger that motivated the backlash to and persecution of witchcraft and its suspected adherents. Overall, I thought that article was well written. I myself have not done any research into this topic, I feel that many of the countries up the "By Region" subheading could be flushed out a little bit more. That being said, it really is a well developed article.