User:Coconut02/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Addiction psychology (Provide a link to the article here.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.) I chose this article because it needs a lot of work. I also chose it because addiction is something I think everyone should be educated on. Lastly, I chose it because I am interested in psychology and am thinking about changing my major to psychology.

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 seems to be relevant to the article topic. The one thing that distracted me is the article isn’t very well organized and seems to be all over the place.

-This article talks more about addiction being a “disease” rather than a “choice”. That is considered an opinion so to me it seems a bit biased on addiction being a disease.

-As I said before, the article seems biased on addiction being a “disease”, so I would say the “disease” part of the article is overrepresented, while the “choice” part of the article is underrepresented.

-The links of the citations work and they seem to support the claims in the article.

-The one fact is referenced by WebMD, in which I heard isn’t a very reliable reference. Most of the sources are neutral.

-I noticed that some of the information came from sources that were from 2001 and 2012. Therefore, some information may be out of date if they came from this source. As far as what could be added, updated sources and more information on addiction being a “choice”, that way it doesn’t come off as a biased article.

-In the Talk page of the article, the types of conversations were about exactly what I already stated. How the article seemed biased between disease being a choice or a disease, the external links needed to be fixed due to outdated information, and someone mentioned how they googled the title of the article and the Wikipedia page never popped up.

-The article is rated Start-Class/C-Class. It is also a part of WikiProject Addictions and recovery.

-In some aspects the article reaches the goal to inform and educate readers on the topic “addiction psychology”. Although in other aspects, the article has multiple issues, it’s a little confusing and unclear, and is written more like a personal reflection since the point of view is slightly biased.