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== Selected Wiki Article: Economic History ==

Questions to consider:

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * In particular, the United States section of the Economic History Wiki page seems a bit unnecessary. I understand its relevance to the topic but to create a complete section on its own for a small paragraph does not add to the understanding of economic history. Economic history exists in other countries as well and the article does draw little attention to that but to give United States their own heading within the article shines too much light on one perspective and not all.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * The article was last edited on August 21, 2018. In general, there is always something that could be added to a page or even removed being that the history of the topic is ever changing with time.
 * What else could be improved?
 * A few headings, such as "Economic history and economics" and "Economic history and capitalism", could be shortened or combined to create more a coherent order to the page. Overall, however, the article seems well organized.


 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * In general, the article focuses a lot on the development of economic history in the United States. I would definitely argue for more studies in other countries on the topic of economic history to be added to the page.


 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * All citations appear to be working properly and are reliable and appropriate for the article.


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * In the talk pages, conversations of the definition of economic history is debated. User Mattley suggests that,
 * "Economic history is the application of economic theories to historical study. That would be described as historical economics. The Economic History I'm familiar with is simply the historical study of economic activity - production, trade, growth and decline of industries, government policy etc. The history of economic theories may be dealt with, but this isn't the same at all."
 * Other users made contributions by cleaning up the page, proposing that some topics be dropped or added, and other simply contributed by suggesting other helpful sources about the topic.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * The article is apart of the following wikiprojects and are all rated at start-class:
 * Business
 * Economics
 * Histroy
 * Middle Ages
 * European History
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * It is currently to early in the course to tell how much of this article will apply the the topics that we will cover.

Article Selection

 * Cultural history of the United States
 * Only has one topic which talked about the 19th century justice system. Could potentially talk about the 21st century of the United states in this category.
 * Based on talk pages, I would suggest that this article is not necessary compared to the already existing article of the Culture of the United states.
 * Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
 * Edits can be made in the geography section that discusses the importance of its geographical location to the fall of communist beliefs and rise of socialist beliefs.
 * As noted in professor Diana Chen Lin's week 3 video minute 4:31.

Suggested References:
In reference to what is discussed about whether or not Czechoslovakia is considered a communist or socialist country in the Talk pages, I suggest the following article about Czechoslovakia Under Communism. In theory, this source is one that is reliable because Vaclav E. Mares was a man who "...served [1946-1948] with the Ministry of Foreign Trade as a commercial adviser to the Czech embassy in Washington, D.C., and as economic adviser to the Czech delegation to the United States". This source can be used to better the section of the article referring to the background of Czechoslovakia.