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 * Belgium-India Relations: Belgium–India relations
 * It is an article of mid-importance on the India wiki project. I thought an article about international relations would be useful to evaluate.

Lead

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 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes.
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? It doesn't precisely name the article's sections, but it includes information that could be slotted into either sections "bilateral trade" or "diplomatic missions".
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? The lead contains information about the Belgian PM's comments about India's role in the UN, which wouldn't fit neatly into either of the article's sections.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? I think it may be slightly overly detailed. Some of the specifics in the lead could be moved into the body paragraphs. It's possible that you could move the information about the Belgian embassy in New Delhi and its architect into the "diplomatic missions" section.

Content

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 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes.
 * Is the content up-to-date? It is fairly up to date. The quotes are recent. None of the sources seem to be older than 2011.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? I am not familiar enough with this subject to know immediately if something is being left out, but everything seems like it belongs.

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral? Yes.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? I couldn't find any evidence of bias, other than a value-judgement that Belgium's embassy in New Delhi "is an architectural marvel", which I don't think is inappropriate.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? It may be skewed towards comments by Belgium's government as opposed to India's. The article could do with some official statements by India's government.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? No.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Not all of them. There is an assertion that the King and Queen of Belgium visited India without a source. There is another about diamond merchants from India being present in Antwerp.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? The sources are generally from official sources, such as embassy pages, although there is a lot of reliance on news articles. I am not familiar with the periodicals cited. It may be better for the article to find more scholarly sources to make the citation more scrupulous.
 * Are the sources current? Yes. They are all in the 2011-2018 range.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? The links all work. I got a security alert for the lndembassy.be link, but that could just be my computer's settings.

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? Generally yes, but the "diplomatic missions" section is very turgid and difficult to read. This may just be because it has so many proper nouns, and it's possible that improving readability here would sacrifice concision. The style of the article is generally indirect and could be cleaned up. For example the sentence "opening the Honorary Consulate made Belgium the first country to do so at India's first IFSC" is clunky and hard to understand. It could be re-written as: Belgium was the first country to open its Honorary Consulate at India's IFSC.
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? I didn't see any grammatical errors, apart from "king" being uncapitalized.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? Yes.

Images and Media

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 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned? Yes, they are informative and to the point.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? I think so. The photograph of the Belgian embassy is cited as being the personal work of a wikipedia user.
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? Yes. Each section has a relevant image.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? I do not see any discussion about this page.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? The article is rated as a stub of mid-importance. It is a part of three WikiProjects: Belgium, India, and International Relations.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? n/a

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status? The article could use some expansion. I think it is an important article since it concerns the relations between two countries with diplomatic importance.
 * What are the article's strengths? It is very up-to-date and written in a neutral way.
 * How can the article be improved? The article could use some scholarly sources, if any are available. I think it may rely too much on news articles.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? I would say the article is underdeveloped, but not critically so.

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