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 * Name of article: Demophon of Eleusis
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.
 * I started being interested in Greek mythology after I read the Percy Jackson series in grade school. I was the only person who would check out this obnoxiously large book on Greek mythology and carry it around. However, I have not been able to take time to look at mythology despite my class winter 2019.
 * This is a stub article marked as having low importance.

Lead evaluation
''The introduction is very very short. It is only a single sentence that includes how to spell Demophon or Demophoon and his lineage, specifically his parents. There were not any other details which makes sense as this article was marked as a stub.''

Content evaluation
''The article only includes information about the mythology and that content relies fairly heavily on quotes. Furthermore, it does not include anything about the Eleusinian Mysteries which is the ritual/ practice where this originated.''

Tone and balance evaluation
''Yes, the article appears to be fairly neutral in introducing the mythology surround Demophon. However, it only includes two sources that it quotes heavily from, and the way that the myth was covered may be considered plagiarism via paraphrasing as it sounds fairly close to one of sources.''

Sources and references evaluation
''There are only two sources that the article quotes heavily from. In fact, the article is fairly similar to one of the sources: It may be considered paraphrasing. However, I am not sure. The sources work and are current. Although, it is fairly difficult to not be current in Greek mythology unless there are new discoveries or translations.''

''The links available worked, and the sources seemed to be of good quality. (I believe that one of my classes may have used one of these sources when we were looking at this myth.)''

Organization evaluation
''I did not see any outstanding grammatical or spelling issues. Furthermore, there was only one section within the article which, I guess, would make it well-organized. There was only one section so there was not really a way to have it not organized well. Additionally, the only section was fairly short. It could be nice to include subheadings for the different parts of the myth?''

Images and media evaluation
''There are not any images on this article. Therefore, there were not any captions to evaluate nor any breach of copyright violations from an image perspective. I have no idea how to lay out images, so this may be a good thing to ask about/ play around with.''

Talk page evaluation
I did not see anything on the Talk page which could suggest that it was only one person who wrote the article and that there is very little interest in it.

Overall evaluation
''The article was a stub that was classified to be of low importance. Predictably, it was missing a lot of information. However, it included a decent amount of information about the myth, but that was all. It did not include any information about how this myth affected the lives of the Ancient Grecians nor how the myth came to be. Although, it tends to be a bit more subjective when it comes to creating a myth, so it may not be great to include this in Wikipedia.''

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