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After the scandalous final two years of his term, Mohammad Khatami was expected to be elected by a much smaller margin than in 1997. His term was marred by the unlawful arrest of political activists, killings of significant Iranian intellectuals, and closure of several Iranian newspapers. Though Khatami was still believed to win by a landslide, these civil and human rights violations were thought to significantly impact his performance in the election. Despite these expectations, Khatami won the election by a much larger margin than he had in 1997.

Initially, Khatami had considered not running for reelection. But, after months of his supporters and party members pleading with him, he finally decided to declare his candidacy two months before the start of the election.

Central to Khatami's campaign were the issues of economic revival, job growth, and democratic reform.

Irresistible grace article evaluation
The article differentiates irresistible grace from the Arminian belief, prevenient grace, in the first paragraph which is highly useful as the two doctrine can seem similar at first glance. The article mentions Perry Miller's criticism to irresistible grace in the section titled "the doctrine." I think this criticism belongs in the "objections to the doctrine" section of the article and should be listed as a Puritan objection. The "objections to the doctrine" section should be much larger and should consist of objections from more groups of Christians. Although most denominations do fall under either Arminianism or Lutheranism, there are some outlier denominations which might have some useful criticism to add to the objections section of the article. The "history of the doctrine" section of the article is too short. I like how the external links of this article are sorted. Sources that agree with irresistible grace are listed as pro and sources that disagree with it are listed as con. I'm uncertain if this is an acceptable format of citation on Wikipedia, though. The article takes a neutral tone and fairly presents both arguments for and against irresistible grace. The links work as they should and lead to the appropriate web pages. Although it should be noted that some of the sources are quite old and archive websites are used to view them. This isn't necessarily a problem but because of the mutable nature of opinions, a source could erroneously state that a denomination does not believe in irresistible grace despite that not reflecting the denomination's actual contemporary belief. As this is an article covering a Christian theological topic, some of the sources are from the Bible. The sources that aren't from the Bible are from academic institutions, Martin Luther and other credible theologians. In the talk page, a user brings up the lack of non-Calvinist views in the article. Another user writes about the revisions he made to the article. The article is a part of WikiProject Christianity and is rated as C-Class and low importance.


 * It would have been helpful to link to the article you're discussing. You provide a good discussion, but it would have been more clear to break up your critiques into categories. Also, did you notice the note at the top of the page "This article may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints. Please improve the article by adding information on neglected viewpoints..."? That's an important point for your review, as would be looking at the 'talk' pages to see what current editors are saying about the page.Christinedbaker (talk) 20:09, 24 February 2019 (UTC)