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Evaluate an article: John Locke
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 * Name of article: John Locke
 * I have chosen to evaluate this article, as John Locke was an important figure that was discussed in the course: History Of Psychology

Lead
The lead successfully included an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic. In addition, the lead has effectively provided a brief description of the article's major sections, in a way where it was concise and not overly detailed. Therefore, the lead has managed to both intorduce the reader in an appropriate manner while simultaneously maintaining a certain level of engagement.

Content
The article's content is relevant to the topic and up to date.

Tone and Balance
The article is effectively written in a neutral tone that does not include any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position. The viewpoints are represented appropriately with neither overrepresentation nor underrepresentation.

Sources and References
The fact in the article seen to be backed up by a reliable secondary source of information. This is achieved with an appropriate level of thoroughness as well.

Organization
The article is very well written with little to no grammatical and or spelling errors. Furthermore, the article is broken down effectively into sections that genuinely reflect the major points of the given topic.

Images and Media
The article includes images of John Locke, the figure. Albeit not necessarily effective in enhancing the understanding of the topic, they serve to engage the reader and provide a more cohesive picture of who John Locke is through his physical appearance. The images are well-captioned and laid out in a visually appealing way.

Checking the talk page
The article's behind the scenes conversations include ways of improvement with regards to organization and coherence. That is, it is specifically highlighted that the article should make Locke's education its own section. In addition, the article seems to have received a C class rating, indicating that despite being well developed overall, seems to have a few pieces of information that remain unwritten in the article (such as, his influence on the writing of the Declaration of Independence, which is brought to attention by one of the commenters on the talk page. Nonetheless, the article does happen to be a part of multiple wikiprojsects.

Overall impressions
The article overall seems to be pretty well-developed, as it effectively highlights some of John Locke's major historical contributions to the field of psychology.

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