User:Birmaniahern/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Family therapy

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen to evaluate this article because it talks about how family therapy takes place. Therapy of any sorts is needed no matter if it's family therapy, couples therapy or marriage therapy. This is something that most people that have problems with their families or significant others go to work out their issues. This is usually the next step that someone takes to fix the problem or see what's not going right.

Evaluate the article
The lead of the article includes a description of what the article is talking about. It gives the readers an idea of what is being looked at how its origin behind it. The lead does not include a brief description of the sections, but one could be implemented to give readers some background information about the subject. The lead is not over-detailed.

As I was reading the article, the content provided is relevant to the topic because it gives readers some insight as to how it started. I feel like there is some excess of information that is provided in the article that can be removed or be condensed.

The article doesn't seem to persuade readers on taking different sides and it also doesn't show off different groups differently. It does talk about how different types of families have gotten different types of therapy, but it gives the readers some background information to get to the current information. The previous information helps readers understand how family therapy developed in different time periods and in different cultures.

All of the facts that are given in this article are accurate and are cited correctly. Sources are current on some facts and others are from different time periods, but it shows the past and present information on the topic that is talked about. Again, it gives readers a background on the topic that will help them further analyze the information. The sources are also written by a diverse group of authors to show different viewpoints on the topic.

The article is also very concise and easy to read. Everything was easy to interpret and analyze and make conclusions out of it. The article doesn't have any grammatical errors, meaning it was looked at before it was published. Article was also broken down into sections which made it easier to read and understand. Information was not scattered and all over the place.

In the Talk page, there is a lot of good feedback on how to make the page a little bit more efficient to read. Some of the information is a little too much and should be cut down to only come across the most important information that is beneficial to the reader. In the Talk page, there is also lots of ideas to remove things because there is an excess amount of information.

The article's overall status is good. It does need some cleaning up and removing. The article is strong itself, but with the removal of excess information it can make the article much much stronger. The article can also include some statistics of the current subject and see how it's worked with different people and see what methods work best and which ones don't. Focus less on the history of the information and more on the statistics side of the information. This will attract the reader and be intrigued to read about the statistics behind it because statistics always help!