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Article Evaluation
This is an evaluation of Benjamin of Tudela's wikipedia page.

Everything in the article was relevant to the topic at hand, and nothing really distracted me. However, the article did not feel completely neutral. The article seems to be biased towards the idea that Benjamin's narrative is almost one hundred percent reliable. For example, "The Travels of Benjamin is an important work ... as a reliable source about the geography and ethnography of the Middle Ages." This statement tells the reader how Benjamin's narrative is reliable without giving them the option to think through that claim themselves. Furthermore, there is only one example in the text where Benjamin's reliability is questioned, while there are numerous claims that seem to support his reliability as a source. The links seem to all work, and I the one citation with a link is appropriate. The other citations are from various books that seem like appropriate references. I don't see any out of date information. The talk page of the article consists of conversations about if he is really an "explorer", plagiarism, and the citing of various sources. The article is generally rated B-Class, and is part of may WikiProjects: Jewish history, Spain, Judaism, Biography/Science and Academia, Middle Ages, Basque. Wikipedia, as one would expect, discusses this topic in much less detail than we've talked about in class. The topic is laid out more simply and talked about without reference to other similar texts, and deeper relevant ideas. These facts are to be expected as Wikipedia's point is to give a simple, unbiased account of a topic rather than an in depth study of the topic that goes over various reoccurring themes of similar works and portrays the text at a deeper level.