Article Evaluation
editAthenian Democracy
edit1).Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
Everything in the article is relevant to the topic.
2).Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No
3).Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? Main viewpoints are fairly and equally presented.
4).Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? Most of the cited links are working without interruption and relatively supporting the claims.
5).Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? From a brief review, I would say that the article is satisfactorily cited to reliable sources except for few sentences, which need citations. Information comes from few different types of sources: primary sources such as original written works, mostly from secondary sources including journals, books, and published articles, and tertiary sources like abstracts.
6).Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? Few sentences need citations. And I did not encounter information that is out of date.
7).Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There are three people who suggested edits to the article in 2017. One of them challenged and criticized ideas that are written in the article and other ones wanted more clarification on certain parts of the article.
8).How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale and as High-importance on the project's importance scale. Also, it is part of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome and WikiProject Politics.
9).How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? There is not much difference. The only thing is that Wikipedia gives a broader description of the topic while we discuss the detailed courses of the topic.