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 * El Hadj Umar Tall

Lead

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 * The lead does talk about briefly who El Hadj Umar Tall was and why he was important to West Africa.
 * The lead does outline that he was a military commander and who founded an empire.
 * Everything in the lead is present in the article.
 * The lead is concise, short, and effective.

Content

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 * The articles content is relevant because it talks about his early life, accomplishments, and death / legacy.
 * It appears the content is up to date, in the Talk section, there were some changes made in 2017.
 * Everything in the article seems to be fitting.

Tone and Balance

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 * Yes I would say this article is neutral, taking to account all the sides affect by El Hadj Umar Tall conquering
 * In the end of the article, the call El Hadj Umar Tall a hero and invader by different groups of people, so there is nothing biased.
 * The importance of his name might be overrepresented, because it is the first topic that you see.
 * I would again say this article does not tend to persuade one way or another, as explained above with not being biased.

Sources and References

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 * There are very reliable secondary sources like books published through the Oxford and Cambridge University Press.
 * The sources cited at the end are good, with a number of books and scholarly journals with a lot of information
 * Only 1 source is from 2014. The other sources are dated before the year 2000.
 * All of the links do work.

Organization

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 * The article is concise but a bit hard to read, not because the information is all over the place, just because some of the names are hard. But the author of the article does leave citations and links to words so you could see the meanings. Like the word "Hajj" for example.
 * There are no grammatical or spelling errors.
 * I would say the article is well-organized except for the first topic. I would have joined the definition of his name in the Lead and made the first topic his early life.

Images and Media

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 * There are no images in the article, which is one negative.

Checking the talk page

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 * A person commented that Umar Tall was the "Napoleon of West Africa," which is a huge statement. And that more should be added on his feud with other muslim leaders
 * This article is rated C-class. This article is part of several Wikiprojects on Islam, Guinea, Mali, and Sengal among others.

Overall impressions

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 * The strength of this article is that it is very concise and not biased at all.
 * More pictures could have been used, along with re-citing in certain instances.
 * The article is well developed for having only a limited amount of sources to work with. Not much is known of El Hadj Umar Tall so this article does a good job in bringing everything together.