User:Avespuccii/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Addiction psychology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

While looking through the C class articles I ran into the addictions page and I thought it was interesting for Wikipedia to have an article about addiction psychology. Addiction is an important topic that can affect everyone in different ways, however it is usually an emotionally charged topic and people have opinions regardless. Having an article that is neutral can help mitigate some of those hard feelings. I saw that addiction was a topic of high importance which I thought was interesting and cool that Wikipedia recogizes it as such.

Evaluate the article
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The lead section is decent, it does use a large quote, which happens a couple more times throughout the article. The quotes seem to come from reliable sources, which is good. I did click around on some of the source links and some of them seem to be outdated and do not link to anything anymore, so a lot of these links could also use some updating. Many of the links also appear to be from private pratice therapy clinics, which I'm not sure how reliable or how that would appear to someone else. The last paragraph of the lead section has a parargraph that I think could be discarded or re-worded for better neutrality.

The history section could be revised as I feel it focuses a lot on Sigmund Freud and William Halstead, not on the actual history of addiction psychology. Maybe both of these psychologists have made some contributions to current day addiction psychology but I think the person strayed away from that a little too much. This also applies to the important contributions section, I think that there is too much insight into the contirbutors personal lives rather than on what they contributed to addiction psychology.

Overall, I think the writing for the article needs some redirecting and ensuring that addiction is the main topic of focus, as well as updating and re-evaluating some sources.