User:Kelseycronin/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
LGBT 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 topic because I have a psych degree so I understand the psych lingo. I am also queer so this topic was right up my alley. I think this matters because the intersectionality between the queer experience and psychology is very important. I thought it was very professional and well done.

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.)

Overall the article needs some work but it has a good foundation.

I thought that the lead section was good. Looking through the talk section I agree that there needs to be a few changes when it comes to the terms that they use and the overall inclusivity but I think it is a great start. It is clear that those working on it are trying to keep things up to date.

It feels fairly neutral in it's tone and point of view.

Some points for the content and citations:

In the description section aromatic needs a link to its own article page like the other sexualities.

They say "In the UK and USA, the acronym LGBT is widely used" but do not offer any other terms from other countries as other examples

The LGBTQ identity development in youth section definitely needs more citations because there were several "facts" that I felt were not cited properly for how definitively they were said. For example: the median ages people were coming out had absolutely no citations for the ages they were throwing out.

In the talks page there isn't much back and forth that I can see. In fact I can only see three actual posts on the Talk page.

Overall I feel that the article needs far more citations in general (having 63 citations is great until you realize just how much content is actually in said article). The amount of content in each paragraph outweighs the number of citations in said paragraph.