User:Zayawoody/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Environment and sexual orientation

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.) I found this page through the academic disciplinary section. I chose it because it interested me. Upon first impression, the article seems rather put together. There is a good amount of links to other articles and sites used for evidence throughout and it seems fairly well written.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The article begins with an analysis of sexual orientation vs sexual orientation identity. Although it feels important to define sexual orientation the comparison felt harmful as it discussed the changing of ones sexual orientation identity despite that being separate from what the article was about. The article does, however, show lots of representation and support for different lgbt groups, and although they mention some information that has been questioned by scientists, they are transparent about that fact and include the information as a discussion point rather than fact.

The article is written fairly neutrally. They discuss opposition the queer community has faced and prove it's incorrectness with fact based evidence. Both sides are discussed in a straightforward way.

The article uses a lot of different sources and is very clear when a piece of evidence includes bias or misinformation. The articles are from a wide variety of time periods which for this piece I think is important to include more perspectives. With that being said, most of the sources are very recent and from a wide variety of publications.

There is a conversation about a confusing portion of the intro, similar to the point I brought up in the beginning. Other than that I don't see much discussion. The article is a part of two WikiProjects: LGBT Studies and Sexology and Sexuality.