User:Omattera/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title: Developmental disorder

Lead
The Lead provides a nice overview and broad definition of developmental disorders, with additional links attached to more complex words to help understand additional definitions. In addition to helpful definitions, there is a mentioning of what disorders will be talked about, outlining major sections in the article. A brief overview of the main topic of treatments is not mentioned in the lead, but makes up in conciseness.

Content
The article's content is extremely relevant to the topic. The content is up to date as well. The content provided in the beginning of the article matches up with what is spoken about in the rest of the content of the article. This article does not take into account different cultural, economic, gender, or environmental factors that should be considered for diagnosing a developmental disorder and treatments.

Tone and Balance
The article does give neutral facts for developmental disorders with no heavily biased claims.

Sources and References
All facts seem to appear to be backed up by reliable secondary source of information and reflect the available literature on the topic. In terms of currency for sources, some are dated back more than ten years, in which could support out dated points, as developmental disorder research is on going with more current research yearly. A few links to some articles sourced are not able to be found or not posted on the internet anymore. There is a diverse range of authors and relevant information.

Organization
The article is concise and very well written. Reading through this article, I do not see any spelling or grammatical errors. This article broken down efficiently and allows for an easy read. There are great main topic headings and then many other sub topic headings with information that relate to the main topic heading.

Images and Media
There are no images or media in this article. Some images ranking the most common developmental disorders should be added from a reliable source.

Checking the talk page
The conversations make note of other sections that could be added to strengthen the overall information of this topic. There is one user who is using this as a WikiProject and this article really short and gives a concise over view of what developmental disorders are, so I have learned more about this topic in relevant psychology courses.

Overall impressions
The status of the article is active. The strengths include a brief overview of what developmental disorders are, a few main disorders and their treatments, and quite a few of current sources. The improvements should be tailored to more commonly seen developmental disorders that reflect the current prevalence rates, information on current research regarding treatments for these disorders, and a section dedicated to a historical view on developmental disorders. This article is great for a concise and quick overview of developmental disorders, but seems incomplete in regards to the history of this topic and a list of more common disorders.



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Option 2

 * Article title Early theories in child psychology

Lead
The beginning is very brief and concise. It tells what the page will be talking about, but it seems too brief.

Content
There needs to be more substance to what is being talked about. The article only briefly mentions information in each section and there needs to be elaboration. The article mentions the three schools of thought, but it is not stated clearly in the content sections.

Tone and Balance
The article does give neutral facts with no heavily biased claims.

Sources and References
There are only three sources and this article needs more resources; the sources are very out of date.

Organization
This article is organized neatly with 3 headings, so it is clearly organized.

Images and Media
Images are correct and help present the information.

Checking the talk page
There is no talk page.

Overall impressions
The status of this article is active. There needs to be more information and sources to support the facts stated in the article. I would add what each contributor did, in terms of studies or experiments they conducted to give more facts, I would provide more current sources, and I would overall just add more details about the topic. There are more people that contributed to this topic that need to be addressed and there should be an "implication" content section to provide more clarity as to what these people contributed to. The topic is also too broad, for what does "early theories in child psychology" mean? The lead needs to give specific dates as to what is determined "early" theories. This portion needs to be more focused, so I would suggest this title be "Early Theories in Child Psychology from 1600-1900".

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Option 3

 * Article title: Bullying and suicide

Lead
There is no lead section to introduce the topic.

Content
The content, that is given, matches what is being mentioned. This article is lacking general data for other cultures and treatment plans for attempted suicide from bullying. There needs to be more elaboration on the content section "circumstances that can affect a person's vulnerability".

Tone and Balance
The article does give facts, but there is no consideration for other cultures with bullying and suicide rates. If there is a hint to mean this is worldwide, it is not made clear.

Sources and References
There are quite a few sources and most of them seem to be up to date and all of them are accounted for in the content.

Organization
This article is short and organizes the content, that is there, correctly.

Images and Media
There are no images.

Checking the talk page
The talk page does mention a WikiProject and the comments talk about definition errors within this article, making it a little confusing to understand.

Overall impressions
The status of this article is active. This article is lacking in generalizability, treatment plans, and examples/definitions/elaboration on circumstances that can affect a person's vulnerability to bullying, leading to suicide



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