User:Highly melanated/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Attachment in children

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am a psychology major, and I love children's psychology and development as well as social psychology. This article is just all of my favorite parts of psychology.

Lead Section
The article I will be evaluating is part of the Attachment Theory category, which is a subcategory of Developmental Psychology. It is titled Attachment in Children. The lead to the article begins with a quoted definition of attachment in children, cited by 3 sources. It is followed up with a more general explanation of the topic, and the paragraph finishes with a claim that seems rather irrelevant, as well as un-cited. It is not brought up again, which is odd that such a heavily worked-on article still has an error like that. The lead finishes by summarizing attachment theory, as well as listing the 4 types.

First Section: Attachment theory and children
This section is mostly a summary of the relevant parts of the Attachment Theory article to lay the baseline of context needed for the following sections.

Second Section: Strange Situation
This section describes the Strange Situation experiment developed by Mary Ainsworth to test infants' (aged 12-20 months) behavior in different unfamiliar situations. It details the steps of the experiment and the intentions of its findings.

Third Section: Attachment patterns
From just the first sub-section of this section, I can tell that each of these is once again going to be a summary of other articles, albeit just the relevant information from other articles. I can see now the conflict over whether this topic necessitates its own entire article. It is mostly a collection of other articles in the context of children specifically, which is probably useful to readers only interested in the attachment of children specifically, not so much in the entire concept of Attachment theory. This article serves as a convenience more than anything, as well as being a helpful place for people to start if they are not sure where to start, since all summarized articles are linked in each section.

Content Overview
After reading through all of the content, although the majority of sections seem to be rewritten/migrated content, the information is drawn together in the concluding sections of the article. It also references criticism to the Strange Situation experiment, which was admittedly the bulk of the article. It brings up cultural differences and the issue that the experiment was based on only a 20-minute interaction. Every claim seems to be backed up with a relevant reference.

Tone and Balance
The Strange Situation experiment and subsequent attachment theory developed based on it makes up most of this article's content. The section for criticisms against the Strange Situation protocol is, in comparison, comically small. Although the criticisms may be held by an extreme minority (although there is no mention of that in the article) or there just may be less information on attachment that goes beyond this one experiment, the entire section is one long quote from one psychiatrist. The quote is riddled with citations however, so something is not quite adding up.

Sources and References
The article is well-sourced. The links I checked worked.

Talk Page Discussion
The article is of interest to WikiProject Psychology. It's rated B-class with High-importance. However, there has not been an addition to the talk page since March 2011. Before that, there was a heated argument over the reliability of the Strange Situation Protocol and the criticism against it. It was the funniest thing I had ever read in my entire life. A true argument, using bolded text, ALL CAPS, and accusations of b=vandalism. All of that to say that I believe there could be improvements made to the criticisms section, since the argument never really came to a solution.