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 * Author Profiling: Author profiling
 * I chose this article because the topic of author profiling is extremely interesting to me because it's an accumulation of linguistics, psychology, and the demographics of society. I wanted to read more about the different types of author profiling and thought that this article would be a useful way for me to learn more.

Lead
The leading and introductory sentence is extremely concise and clear. It gives a good summary of what author profiling is without any necessary details. I think that a brief sentence about the different fields in author profiling would have been useful to add in the introductory paragraph to give the readers an idea of what they're about to read.

Content
Everything in the article is extremely relevant to the article topic. The author explains the different fields within author profiling, and also gives a little bit of history of how author profiling came to be. I found the last two paragraphs not necessarily necessary. The artice included a paragraph that explained how there's still a lot of information to be discovered about this topic, which I felt could have been condensed into a single sentence and it was elongated.

Tone and Balance
The article is very neutral and the author does not make any claims that appear heavily biased towards any particular position, in fact, nearly everything in the article are facts about what author profiling is and its history. Aside from describing different approaches and the different branches within author profiling, the author does not give any indication whether or not they feel that this approach is better or worse than any other methods. I don't feel that there are any viewpoints that are over or underrepresented, and that the article doesn't attempt to persuade the reader in favor of any particular position over another, but rather, just explaining what the topic is and giving some background information on it.

Sources and References
After checking all of the links, I can confirm that all of the links were accessible and there weren't any plagiarism or paraphrasing in this article. All of their sources are relevant to the topic in some way. There were some sources regarding the actual method of author profiling, and there were other sources regarding the many different characteristics of authors, texts about differentiating writing styles between genders, and writing styles regarding age.

After every paragraph, the author inserts at least one source that references the reliable source that they used to draw their statement. The sources that the author chose all seem to be neutral and reliable because they come from published journal articles, books, and also research papers.

There aren't any sources that are new past 2014, so it could be useful to update the sources and add any new information or discoveries on author profiling from research in the more recent years.

Organization
The article is well-written and very clear. The author chose to keep it extremely straight-forward and easy to read. There wasn't a specific writing style in the writing that was particularly noticeable, but I think that the lack of writing style, made this article more concrete and straightforward because it was just notifying the reader of the facts about author profiling. There weren't any grammatical or spelling errors. I also felt that the structure was good as well because the author started with a description of what author profiling was, moved on to the history of it, further explaining the different branches of author profiling, and finally, the problems within it and the many problems regarding author profiling that has yet to be solved.

Images and Media
There were no images or medias in the article that enhanced the understanding of the topic. An image that they could have included could possible be a chart that shows a specific correlation between a specific writing style and certain demographic that is closely associated with it.

Checking the talk page
There weren't any conversations regarding this topic, but it was rated as start-class on the project's quality scale and the article was reviewed by members of WikiProject Articles for creation.

Overall impressions
The strongest aspect of this article was its ability to stay neutral and extremely concise. The author didn't include any additional information that would be useless and they gave the right about of background information. The writing was also straight-forward and sophisticated. I do think that this article could have been longer by including how author profiling has developed over the years since its existence and actually explaining the specific characteristics of an author that they use to analyze. They also could include an example of a profile and how they were able to gain this information through author profiling.