User:Baldvegan123/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Poltergeist (Provide a link to the article here.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because I have always been fascinated by supernatural things, ghost stories, and strange occurrences that cannot be explained (Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

My preliminary impression was that I think sometimes there is a reasonable explanation for these occurrences and people do blow them out of proportion but then on the other hand I think that paranormal happenings are real and some stories really are supernatural and do not have an explanation

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.) -Everything in the article is relevant it even gives all sides and doesn’t just focus on one aspect that it is real, it talks about possibilities of debunking some things that have happened. -the viewpoint that is overrepresented is the side that talks about debunking poltergeist activity, and they don’t talk about it actually being real and unexplained events happening more than the other. - the links work and do support the claims in the article -not all of the facts have a direct reference linked in the article but the references are all at the bottom of the page -the information is up to date, in fact the article was last edited on February 2, 2022 -I feel like they should add into the article more accounts of poltergeist activity happening in homes and showing the “victims” side of the story and witness’ testifying that they don’t know to explain what had happened, rather than just linking them at the bottom in a category -what the name poltergeist means is being talked about because they mention two different meanings in the article, which confuses people Someone also brought up that in most cases this type of activity involves young girls, and they then talk about the excess energy that girls have at that age and what it can do to their brain They also talk about moving certain information around and restructuring the article so it is easier to read and understand -the article is rated c class It has 4 wikiprojects, death, folklore, spirituality, skepticism -I think the article does inform people about the topic