User:Addisonel/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
\Sigmund Freud

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Personally, I have chosen this article to evaluate because I have always heard of Freud's influence on psychology but I actually have no idea what he did or what concepts he introduced. When you are studying a topic such as psychology I feel that it is extremely important to also know about those who have contributed in the past.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: In this lead section there is a great abundance of information on Freud. There are citations and links to words that may need further explanation. I think it would be more reader friendly if they chose to use some synonyms of these complicated words that might confuse the average reader.

Content: The content in this article is relevant, up to date and accurate.

Tone and Balance: This article is very factual. I feel that due to how developed this article is there leaves less room for it to be one sided and opinionated

Sources and References: There is an extremely large amount of reputable sources used in this article. It is a very reliable source of information.

Organization and Writing Quality: This is a very large article. That being said, the authors did a very good job at keeping it organized in sub categories and having a nice flow.

Images and Media: There is a sufficient amount of images that connect with the text the authors are providing. They contribute to the information instead of detract.

Talk Page Discussion: This article has such a rich history of editing that there are many archived talk pages. I browsed through the first couple to exist and found that there is a lot of discussion on how to properly word things. One thing I noticed was the discussion on how to pronounce terms and represent that phonetically to the reader.

Overall Impression: My overall impression of this article is that it has a very large and rich editing history as it is such a popular topic. There are too many sources to count and almost every sentence is directly supported by one of them. It is well written and eloquent which is important to the reader. However, I do have to admit that I feel in some places over complicated phrasing/wording is used.