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Article Evaluation:

Content:

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?"Everything included in this article is relevant to the topic. This article gives the summary of a book that details the theory that there was another terrorist involved in the Oklahoma City bombings. There was nothing specific in the article that stood out to me as a distraction."Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?"The article discusses a Representative from California who interviews key people involved in the Oklahoma City bombings. I think it would be helpful to add any more information or studies that have been done on this topic to the page. The book was written in 2005 so some additional updated information could be beneficial to the reader."What else could be improved?"I think the portion of the article that was more of an analysis was a little bit choppy. I think a little more explanation of details could have been useful to the reader."Tone:

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?"I believe that the article is mostly neutral. The author of this article provides a summary of a book that discusses the possibility of another terrorist involved in the Oklahoma City bombings. The analysis included is a little biased because the book provided evidence towards an additional terrorist. There is nothing that appears heavily biased, but the article has ideas that back up the theories provided by the book that there was another terrorist. The author of the book and the author of the article appear to both believe this theory."Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?"I think to fully create a neutral article, some evidence could have been provided that could potential poke holes in the theory that there was another Oklahoma City bomber."Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?"There are six citations on this article and only one of them works. Five of them had to do with the Representative who did research and used the book written on the theory that there was another terrorist involved. All of the pages cannot be reached anymore, most likely because the Representative is no longer in office. It is hard to know if the claims and the statements by the Representative are accurate because the pages can no longer be reached. One citation leads to a LA Times article written in 2005 that discusses an interview with one of the men, Nichols, who was convicted for the Oklahoma City bombings."Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that biased noted? "Many of the facts within the article come from the book that is referenced. The other information comes from pages from the Representative's website that is no longer accessible. It is hard to know what these pages were about when they are no longer online. The LA Times article was unbiased because it was just reporting on the meeting between the Representative and the convicted. The bias is not noted within the article specifically."What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?"There was no talking behind the scenes concerning this topic."How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?"The talk page says that this page was a part WikiProject Books. It was listed as a Stub-Class rated article, which is not a well-rated article because of the content that it lacked."How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?"We have not talked too much about this in class, but we have talked about providing another side to your opinion that could possibly disprove your theory."

= Group of Popular Combatants =

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
The Group of Popular Combatants is the militant and armed sector of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador.

'''      iv. The goal of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador is to create a revolution in Ecuador that will lead to socialism and communism. The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador gets its political inspiration from other countries' communist parties. These communist parties share similar Marxist-Leninist ideologies, so they meet to share each country's political successes.'''

Claimed Attacks
i.       The Group of Popular Combatants have three attacks where they claimed responsibility in Ecuador.

iii. '''The Group of Popular Combatants committed their first attack on September 28, 1997 in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. No one was injured or killed in the attack.'''

iv. '''Their second attack occurred on February 16, 2000 in Guayaquil city, Guayas, Ecuador. A television network received a video tape which contained a concealed bomb. Rafael Cuesta, the news editor at the station, and the only casualty in the attack, was wounded when the bomb went off inside the station. Prior to the attack, the news station had warnings about a possible attack from a different group, This initially led authorities to blame a different organization, although, the Group of Popular Combatants did eventually take responsibility. Rafael Cuesta was the only person injured and no one was killed.'''

v.        '''On February 21, 2000 the Group of Popular Combatants committed their third terrorist attack. It took place in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador. Their target was indigenous rights leader, Marcos Murillo. In this attack too, a videocassette sent to the location of Marcos contained a concealed bomb. The police were called and the bomb was defused. There was no one killed or injured in this attack.'''

vi. '''On November 22, 2010, the Group of Popular Combatants claimed responsibility for a bomb placed in the head office of the University of Guayaquil. The group had not been active for almost a decade when this occurred. The Group of Popular Combatants claimed they used the bomb to attempt to influence student elections held at the University.'''

Weaponry
Weaponry

b.  Two of the incident reports from the Global Terrorism Database show that the Group of Popular Combatants placed bombs inside video cassettes and sent them to specific designated places to target people or make a political statement. '''The fourth attack is not included on the Global Terrorism Database because there is some speculation about whether they actually did it. However, this attack did use a bomb as well, which is consistent to the weaponry used in their previous attacks.'''

References

“Ecuador Travel Advice,” Intelligent Protection International Limited, 22 April 2019, https://www.intelligent-protection.co.uk/ecuador-country-brief.html

“Forty Years of Struggles to Lead the Revolution and Socialism to Victory,” ''En Marcha. ''29 July 2004 – 5 August 2004. 22 April 2019. https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv10n2/40years.htm

"Incident Summary,” Global Terrorism Database. July 2018. 03 April 2019.  https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=200002210002 (2-21-2000)

“Incident Summary,” Global Terrorism Database. July 2018. 03 April 2019. https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=200002160003 (2-16-2000)

“Incident Summary,” Global Terrorism Database. July 2018. 03 April 2019. https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199709280004

Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. “Chapter 2. Country Reports: Western Hemisphere Overview.” United States Department of State. 30 April 2009. 09 April 2019. https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2008/122435.htm

Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. “U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Terrorism 2006-Ecuador,” UNHCR. 09 April 2019. https://www.refworld.org/docid/4681087d19.html

Hoxha, Enver. “The Fist of the Marxist-Leninist Communists Must Also Smash Left Adventurism, the Offspring of Modern Revisionism.” Works of Enver Hoxha Volume IV p. 498-514. “Marxist Internet Archive.” 21 October 1968. 09 April 2019. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1968/10/21.htm

***Comments***

 * Readability/Content (Does everything make sense?)
 * Under Marxist-Leninst Communist Party of Ecuador (ii) - "The people were hungry, and the government was not doing their job up to the Communists’ parties standards, so they created a Liberation", maybe change the way this sentence is worded, I think the ideas were good but maybe say something like "The government was meeting the standards of the Communist party through/by ... so they created a Liberation"
 * Under Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (v) - "which is what the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador is fighting for" feels a little repetitive to me, you explained it adequately above I think
 * Under Claimed Attacks (IV) - "Prior to the explosions, the news station had warnings about a possible attack from a different group, so when the explosion occurred blame was not originally placed on the Group of Popular Combatants" maybe say so the group was not initially blamed because this sentence is a little wordy, you could also find a way to split it in two possibly also
 * Under Claimed Attacks (IV) - change "although" to "however"
 * Under Counterterrorism (ii) - Change "towards to beginning of the early 2000s" to "the early 2000s"
 * Grammar
 * Under Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (iii) - I think it would sound better to say "was inspired by" instead of "got its inspiration from"
 * Under Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (iii) - take out the word "the" before opposition
 * Under Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (iv) - the goal is "to" lead and fight instead of the
 * Under Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (iv) - the state and the government "are" strong, but they can be overturned, or combine state and government and just say either state or government
 * Under Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (v) - say "some influence" instead of just "influence"
 * Spelling
 * Under Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (iv) - left off the y in party