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 * Name of article: List of Ancient Roman temples
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. The Roman Empire was large and therefore had many temples dedicated to the gods. I wanted to evaluate this to see the many different kinds of temples, how they were built, their function and where they were located.

Lead

 * Guiding questions

The Lead does include an introductory sentence however, it is very brief. The Lead does not include a brief description of the article's major sections, it is just one sentence. All of the information mentioned in the Lead if found throughout the article, nothing was missing. The Lead is too brief (only one sentence), it would be better to add more content. Even though the article is a list of Roman Temples, the article should give background information on what they did to Roman and their significance

Content

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The article's content is relevant to the topic, however there are many other countries listed in the article that do not explain how they are related to Rome. The article is called List of Ancient Roman Temples and it lists more temples outside of Rome without any explanation as to why they are there. Not all of the content is up to date. There are links to other articles on the page that no longer exist.

Content evaluation
There other temples listed in the article that feel as though they do not belong. The article does not explain the in the Lead what the other content is for or why it is connected to Rome.

Tone and Balance

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The article is neutral. There are not any biases toward a particular position. The viewpoints also are very neutral. However, it does persuade the reader to look at certain temples more than others as some temples get a brief description beside the link while other links do not have a brief description.

Sources and References

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All of the facts are properly cited with sources that do look reliable. The newest source is from 2016, while the oldest source is from 1856. Therefore, some of the sources should be updated as links from the 19th century are too old and the information provide in them could be proven false. The links do work. One of the citations under the References sub-heading is broken-the link does not work.

Organization

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The article is well written, even though the information provide is too brief. The article does not have any grammar or spelling errors. It is well organized. There are four sections that are divided properly and easy to follow.

Images and Media

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The article does include images that help the understanding of the topic. The images are examples of some of the Roman temples listed. All the images are well-captioned with the proper location of the photos. The images do follow the copyright guidelines and are cited. The images are laid out in the same way (to the right side of the article). They do not enhance the article in a visually appearing way.

Checking the talk page

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 * In 2017 someone modified one of the external links and says that they are open to edits or any questions relevant to their modification. This article is not part of any WikiProjects.

Overall impressions

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 * The article is good. It gives an overall understanding of the vast amount of temples in the Roman Empire. The strengths comes from the content, the list of temples is very long with sub-headings of where the temples are located by country. The information is very easy to read. I think the article could be improved if it were updated. Some of the sources are too old and many links found throughout the article do not work anymore. The Lead is also too short. I would be good to include more information of the importance of Roman temples or maybe why they were built across the whole empire instead of just Rome itself. The article is underdeveloped.

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