User:Almacson/sandbox

Political Party
The article I read last week was on the semi-new political party of the Broad Front. Upon rereading the article again, I would say my last assessment is good, and that more sources are needed. However, I would extend my previous review to include that most of the information is directly related to election results or the origins of the party. There is very little about how it may have changed since putting Tabaré Vázquez in the president's office in 2005. I would appreciate more coverage of the topic if available, and think it could work well as an article to work on if I can find more English language sources.

Tabaré Vázquez
This is by far the strongest of the articles I'm looking at, as it is ranked a C-class, with the others stubs and starts. That said, I do find fault in the governance section being dedicated almost entirely to international work.

President of Uruguay
A surprisingly brief article that has been without sources since 2009. This article is fine on tone, just needs a lot more content.

Broad Front (Uruguay)
I would love to work on this article. There is not a good detailed description of the party that has won the past three elections of the country, which should be changed.

1973 Uruguayan coup d'état
This article really lacks most a section on the results of the coup. I think if more could be added specifically on how things played out after the coup this article could be much stronger. I wonder if it is too far in the past to connect to this class, i.e. would this be more relevant for a history course?

Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay
This felt like a more lengthy version of the article just on the coup, and I'd rather work on this. Though they are both stub-class, high-importance articles, I think this has the potential to be a better article. The section on the return to democracy I think could have more in it in terms of both content and sources. Movements from dictatorship to democracy are never easy, so the policies they took I would imagine are worthy of analysis, meaning they should have an objective representation here.

= Broad Front (Uruguay) = I found this topic by looking into the presidential elections of Uruguay. I noticed in the readings that they have an interesting policy of no consecutive terms, but no limit to total terms. So, I first searched the list of presidents of Uruguay, to see how many people had multiple, separate terms. After this search I noticed that the past three presidents have been from the "Broad Front" Party, which was something entirely new compared to the much older Colorado and National parties. The major key word associated with this article would be elections. The Broad Front really has quite diverse beliefs within itself, though the majority are central-leftist beliefs. Because of the large range, few specific polices are mentioned. However, a lot of statistics about the last five Uruguayan elections are present. This is honestly a very brief article that could use more information. The party has only been running the country since 2005, but it has been around since the 1970s. The little information there is good but it lacks sources. Also, as it is a coalition, more information on the members and the internal relations would be good.

= Article Evaluation = Notes on "Foreign relations of Uruguay"

Evaluating Content
The overview features a large jump in time from 1919 to the 1990s. It also largely discusses relationships with other South American countries only in terms of coalitions formed for relations with the U.S. and Europe. There is no mention of relations to African countries at all in the overview, though they are featured in the country by country examination. Even within that section, it was just a list of embassy and consulates.

The list of relations is very inconsistent in content, which is reasonable to an extent, but I imagine there are important sections missing. The Pakistan and South Korea sections are poorly organized. There is a lot of inconsistency in the list section, that does not entirely align with the level Uruguay's relationship with other countries.

This article feels more like a list of the direct relations Uruguay has with different states than an article on foreign relations.

Evaluating Tone
I would say the tone is largely pretty flat, and inline with indifference looked for in a Wikipedia article.

Evaluating Sources
A shocking lack of sources. There is a singular source in the entire overview, nothing for where the various embassies and consulates are, and really nothing under the Russian section despite the use of quotes. There needs to be a lot more of support for this article.

Talk page
Not much in terms of actual talk, just a lot of people editing links in early 2017 and a note about working on two country relation pages.