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Article Evaluation: Thirty Years War.

This article is currently graded level B. This means that the article is mostly complete and without major problems, but requires some further work to reach a higher quality status.

The thirty years war was in the beginning a conflict between Protestant Princes and the Holy Roman Empire for religious dominance. It gradually developed into a war for regional control among Catholic Powers like France, Spain, the Habsburg and the Dutch who wanted independence from Spain. The war ended in the Treaty of Westphalia, whose outcome gave Princes more religious freedom and the independence for the Dutch.

Evaluation: The article begins with the introduction, a summary of the conflict describing the reasons that led to the conflict, the major phases and the political consequences after the conflict ended in 1648. Although the Danish intervention was missing, the introduction sums up the historic events in a neutral, fact based tone.

Due to the large size of the article, the Contents shows everything that is inside the article. It also gives the reader a convenient way to navigate to a specific topic of the war of interest.

I am not agreeing with all topics listed in the Contents. The topic "Witch-hunt" is certainly good information to describe the atrocities of the war, it does not describe how it affected the further development or the outcome of the war. This topic could be presented either as its own article or attached to existing Wikipedia articles about Witchcraft.

I reviewed the History- and Talk-page to find out about ongoing discussion around its content. It offered useful insights into the practices of the anonymous contributors, since the articles first publication in 2001. I found the Talk-page most interesting as it provides insight into how knowledge is created and how it is evaluated. Content and the process of information are equally visible, thereby enabling a new kind of critical reading. Afschuet (talk) 11:18, 28 January 2018 (UTC)