User:Karissaheath/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Natural magic

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 to evaluate this article because it talks about using herbs or contacting spirits as a form of medical treatment in the past. It is interesting how it mentioned that this is a form of natural medicine. It reminded me how apothecaries were common and used herbs to create medicine, yet it wasn't deemed occult like this article.

Evaluate the article
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The lead section in this article has a rough start. It started by talking about natural medicine in the renaissance, then jumped to astronomy and chemistry. It is not concise and doesn't flow.

It is very short of content. This article is lacking major points that were briefly mentioned, but not further discussed. For example, astrology is mentioned as a form of natural magic, but it doesn't say how or mention what astrology even is. Each point should be discussed so the reader understands.

The article has more of a neutral tone, however quotes are placed in the article that seem to favor natural magic. The viewpoints of natural magic are lacking.

This article has terrible organizational skills. The lead of the article is very messy and should be more of an overview with different points mentioned in other sections. There are no other sections besides the "see also", "references" and "further reading" sections because it was all mixed together very briefly in the lead. It does have a nice list of sources, but not enough text.

This is a very small article with nothing written on the talk page. It is almost like someone started the outline of the article, but never finished writing.

This article's status is Stub-class with mid importance. It has a good idea of what to talk about and its sources. It also gives a good list of other material to read related to the topic. It could be easily improved. I would make the lead of the article a broad overview of what natural medicine entails. I would create separate sections over the topics listed, astronomy, chemistry, ceremonial rituals, herbs, etc.. and dive further into what each topic is and its significance in the culture and time it was relevant/popular in.

This article is poorly developed, but has great potential.