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 Evaluating a Wikipedia article: 

The article that I evaluated is on Collectivization.

Article evaluated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union 

Everything in the article is relevant to the topic and nothing in the article was distracting or irrelevant. None of the information appeared to be out of date. The article doesn’t talk about the industrial revolution that was going on during collectivization. Per other sources that I have read, collectivization as effected by industrial revolution and effected the industrial revolution in the cities. The article could be improved by A visual depiction of the farms that were collectivized would add value to the understanding of the process and the overall impact. The article shows a chart that has the progress of collectivization. Maps showing the progress over the years and the areas that were affected would help create perspective on how much of the Russia population and area was affected. The article could also be improved by adding the views of the government and the successes that Stalin achieved. The article is mostly neutral but the article does have an anti-collectivism and anti-Stalin tone. On occasions, “fluff” words such as “…devastating toll…” are used which immediately creates a negative opinion of the subject. After reading the facts, such as “Up to 6 million people were killed as a result of Collectivization”, would lead someone to concur that it was devastating, but adjectives like that lead someone to that conclusion before evaluating the facts. All view points in the article appeared to be presented with the right amount of attention. The citations in this article work and are relevant to the article. They also help support the information in the article and add to the understanding of the topic. The facts presented in this article are referenced. I check and read a few of the references. They use neutral scholarly sources to back up their claims. Some of the articles have titles and subjects that lead to develop an opinion before getting the facts but they are from universities and other scholarly sources. The talk page has a few topics that are not mentioned in the article. The fact that the successes that Stalin had during collectivization is not mentioned and the Stakhanovite Movement is not mention. Also, someone questions the estimated death toll from collectivization. This article is related to multiple projects. It is related to WikiProjects: WikiProject Russia / Economy / History, WikiProject Soviet Union, WikiProject Central Asia, WikiProject Socialism, WikiProject Cooperatives, WikiProject Agriculture, WikiProject Sociology. The article is rated as a B-class topic. This article covers one side of Collectivization. It doesn’t go into detail on the pro-Stalin government’ side or how the people in the city were affected. It also doesn’t talk about the impact that it had on the industrial revolution in the USSR. It talks about what happened to the peasants and how they wee effected.