User:Dawson Thornburgh/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Hypnotherapy

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have always believed hypnotherapy to be an interesting to concept, it is something that I have personally considered trying myself. My father benefited from it when he was younger and since then I have been interested in it.

Evaluate the article
The lead section in the article provides a definition in the article, however it does not describe the contents or sections that the article will contain. in reference to content the article refers to a lot of different topics however not all are necessary to the topic at hand. for instance it refers to a celebrity using hypnotherapy when in reality that does not deepen my understanding of the topic at all. It also does not refer at all to historically underrepresented populations. Much of the article refers to sources that are older/not up to date. The article does manage to keep a neutral tone throughout and does not skew one way or another. Many of the sources are older and outdated, and some of the links are not in working order, however much of the information is backed up through some sources. It is possible to find more relevant and current information with little to no effort. The writing quality was consistently average with little to no grammatical errors, the sections were not very distinct, and I could not tell how the author was trying to organize the information. Overall the article was very unorganized. The author decided that no images were needed to assist increasing understanding of the article as the article had no media or images at all. The article talk page is a much more technical as it is talking about edits and how they are by pages that are broken. The article is rated as starting class and requires many improvements. The article provides good foundational information that can provide a basic understanding of the topic at hand. However, there is very little organization to the information, and more information would have been appreciated within certain aspects of the article. The article provided many citations and sources, however many links were broken, and many sources were outdated. the article could use more up to date information and it would greatly benefit from some media and graphics to assist in improving understanding of the topic.