User:Samarahzeinou/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Self-handicapping

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article due to its pertinence in our everyday lives and the fact that I knew little about the subject. It is important for me to be able to understand what self-handicapping really is and what it may look like. I found this article going through a series of different Wikimedia Projects and it caught my attention. In addition to being versed on the subject I also found myself curious about how much we actually know and have written on the subject as well as how long our knowledge on it has been around or originated. I was also quite pleased with the quality of the references provided.

Evaluate the article
- Although the article contains a strong lead discussing what Self-handicapping is and when it was studied, it also talked about its effects geographically and culturally but was not referred to again throughout the remainder of the article. This is something that I was looking forward to reading and learning about.

- If there are not enough references to write about the cultural or geographical areas of subject I would just state that but maybe add another section so that others may eventually add onto it what they are able to or just leave it out of the lead completely. There were no written/cited references to the subject when it was in fact included towards the end of the articles lead.

- Geographical and Cultural information could be listed as the third topic under the Overview and Relevance section of the article.

- One thing that is later spoken about is its relevance to Sports which was not previously stated in the lead of the article.

- I feel like the first paragraph under applications needs information that can be cited because it comes off as filler or opinionated information. Probably because there is no where that the information provided is referenced. It talks about taking drugs or consuming alcohol as Self-handicapping but not which category it would fall under etc.

- I would break up and list the different known types of self-handicapping and provide their references.

-Toward the end of the occurrence in sports section it mentions two different kinds of self-handicapping: behavioral self-handicaps, claimed self-handicaps. These two I feel could have been expanded on some.

- I would have liked to see the Self-handicapping Survey and learn more about how it is being used and how often it is used.

- I feel like this article is one that could have had a better flow and its thoughts more concise and objective.

- The image used had a pretty decent & descriptive caption to help get the idea of reinforcement and self-handicaps across to the reader.

- The page has a pretty impressive amount of revision history, April of this year being the latest.

- Going back and looking over the talk page I saw that my fellow wikiepeer's addressed some of the same concerns that I had with the article which is good because it just means that we know what we need to do/which direction we should be heading in collectively.

- Overall I praise the quality and amount of references used, the ideas provided, and believe that this is the beginning of a solid article in the making.