User:Sthapa20/Article Evaluation

What I learned this week for training is that Wikipedia does a lot to regulate or keep in check the quality of articles produced. Although they do not personally do it they let other riders I had a chance to fix or talk about if the information is incorrect. I’ve also learned that Wikipedia also finds it very important to have good sources inside everything that you put in. It is also very important to put everything in your own words even so you do have to cite when it is necessary. I found it also interesting how we Ball and italicize text instead of pressing a button that I usually do in word you actually have to program it in which is pretty interesting. I also find it nice that we can just add a website and we don’t have to go through and cite it, as the website itself does it for you.

The Article Evaluation

The article that I chose is on the topic of psychological trauma. Going through the article and checking their references I would say that the facts are appropriate and the references are proper. When it comes to the article being distractive the only part that I said that was distractive could apply to psychodynamics in the article, it may be due to it being under the wrong subtitle because it’s under causes but it mostly explains why there are certain views that are different and I don’t think that’s appropriate to have under causes but under something else like discussion. I would state that this article is neutral, there are no certain claims but they are introduced to appear that they may be one of the reasons which are under cause and so for the situation I do think it is appropriate. Much of the information comes from articles involving people who have spirit traumas as well as many therapy related articles involving treatments of traumas and PTSD as well as other diagnosis that could cause trauma. Because this is a very heavy studied information much of it has been explained very well because there is so much information about it I do not think that it is under represented at all but I am not sure about it being over represented by looking at this article you can get a lot of information from this article surrounding psychological traumas from what it is that causes as well as how people are diagnosed to the  treatments. While looking through I did click on some of the links and all of them work there are some issues with quotations not all of them have citation. There seems to be a good amount of paraphrasing in the article which does not seem to be misplaced and it is mentioned where they get the information for closing paragraphs some of them are just full of quotations from different sources while other ones are actually proper. I do not think any of the information is outdated most of it is reasoning why it happens in this world in that case and any information that should be added and I do not know of because everything that I have learned has been included in the article.

"Psychological trauma", Wikipedia, 2021-01-24, retrieved 2021-01-31 Overall you did a very nice job on this assignment! I would suggest that you carefully check the grammar as you move closer to making edits on your Wikipedia article as I did note some grammatical mistakes throughout. I think you were thoughtful in your consideration of where topics should be in terms of arrangement within the article (although I imagine some Wikipedia editors might argue regarding the Psychodynamics point above). Liz