User:MakennaA/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Manifestation (popular psychology)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because manifestation is something I believe in strongly and I thought would be a good topic to write about for my Wiki Page. It is an up and coming topic so its important that it has complete Wiki page with as much information as possible. My first impression was not great since this article is so short; it is probably lacking a lot of important information.

Evaluate the article
To begin, this article only has a lead section. The lead section share a brief description of what manifestation is along with some brief history. The introductory sentence is good but it quite brief and doesn't provide a whole lot of insight in to the article. The content of this article is clearly lacking. There is nothing but a small paragraph that has about one sentence for each content area of this topic. In regards to tone, the tone of this article is fairly neutral which is good. There is no persuasion from the author trying to lead one way or the other; all information is given in an unbiased manner. There are only four sources used for this article. All four of these sources do not seem peer reviewed at all. One of them is from Oprah Magazine, which doesn't have any scholarly credibility. Another is from a high school newspaper which may or may not be backed up by other factual sources, but still unreliable. The last two articles come from Psychology Today, which is an online psychology website I have personally used in the past. Again, a lot of that website is very opinionated, so it progeny isn't appropriate to use for this article. The quality of the writing itself is fairly good; I don't spot an conventional error right off the bat, but again, there's not much to go off of. There is no media provided for this article. There is nothing going on the talk page. In order to improve this article, I plan to add sections to it and going much greater detail about the history and its cultural relevance today. I will also use appropriate sources.