User:Sey2020/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Eastern philosophy in clinical psychology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I was interested in learning more about the early influences in psychology beyond the western philosophy that is typically taught in American education. I thought this was important because there are different influences and view points surrounding mental health around the world, and it is important to learn about more than one group of peoples perspective. My preliminary impression of this article was that it would review general Eastern philosophical influences on modern clinical psychology.

Evaluate the article
The lead section starts with an introductory sentence that is concise and describes the article's topics. Also, the section gives a brief introduction to the topic and its concepts. It also includes a table of contents. When describing major concepts in the article, there are a few instances in the lead section that are not mentioned again in the rest of the article. There is a lot of detail in the lead section. However, it is not overly long and does a good job of alluding to the topics ahead. The content is relevant to the topic and up-to-date to my knowledge. As far as I can tell the article is written from a neutral point of view. The article seems to be well balanced, including information from many different cultures and religions. The article is well-sourced but there are a few statements that could be used in-text citation. Also, some of the sources are slightly outdated but they are diversified. The article is very well organized, with an individual section for each topic. The information in those sections is even organized further by religion or historical figures. As well these sections all looked to be grammatically correct and easy to read. There are only four small images of some of the historical figures discussed. The images had adequate descriptions that told the reader who they were looking at. In the talk page discussion, there was much discussion surrounding the title of the article and if it was an accurate description of the information covered in the article. There was also a little bit of conversation surrounding the images included and if there was enough information in their captions. This article was a part of the Psychology and Philosophy WikiProjects, with a Start-Class rating on the quality scale of both projects and a Mid-importance rating on the importance scale in the Psychology WikiProject. This article does a good job of listing important historical figures as well as showing instances of influence eastern philosophy has on psychology throughout history. However, there should be more in-text citations and some statements need to be backed up better. Overall, I would assess this article as being slightly underdeveloped, but it has a strong structure.