User:Chan Mattice/sandbox

For this assignment, I am evaluating an article. I have chosen an article given in module two from the c-class. The article title is as follows: Joseph Stalin in the Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, and Polish–Soviet War. Everything in this article seems to be relevant to the topic. Throughout this article is gives a brief background of what it is going to talk about, then explains Stalin’s childhood moving into how he formed alliances with Kliment Voroshilov and Semyon Budyonny while leading into the Caucasus. Nothing seemed to distract me in this article it followed a precise time line which made it very easy to read. Nothing from this article seems to be out of date especially because it is history and nothing in the present or future can change what has been done by Stalin or Lenin. In the last paragraph of this article where it is explaining when Stalin was defending himself in front of Politburo I think that it should have clarified why he has threatened so many times to resign his military commission. What was making him threaten the people? Why was this a big deal? Giving this kind of information and facts helps the time line we are trying to represent come alive. I believe that this article is neutral. It doesn’t seem to be bias and I believe that this is because it was written with many facts from the past rather than on opinion. I believe we will begin to see more biased articles once we get into religion, or if it is heavy on opinion. The only thing that I think could have been underrepresented was details on why things were happening rather just explaining what happened. Overall, I think the viewpoints in this article are represented well. After checking a few citations, I found out that they were mostly cited from pages in specific books. Some of the links work, others are taking me to the authors of books which isn’t very convenient for someone looking on Wikipedia for guidance on homework and needed to cite sources of where they received their information from. The sources do support the claims of the article. Each fact in this article is references with an appropriate reference. Most of these facts were coming from, Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore. I would say these again are neutral sources. After looking at the talk page from the article, you can see that only one person has written on it. They are very surprised with this article and said that it was written by an X-KGB. This article is rated a C-class. This article is a part of WikiProjects including Wikiproject Biography, Wiki Project Soviet Union, and Wiki Project Russia/History/Military.