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Article evaluation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

The entire article is relevant to the article topic. It’s crisp and clear and nothing really strays from the topic at hand. The authors are neutral, based on facts with multiple sources used and I don’t detect any bias in the diction used. The meaning of the text is neutral and presents facts. As it is factual, there aren’t really viewpoints to present, as the page is dedicated to pure factual information. It’s an educational tone and from my background knowledge, they hit most of the bases. All of the citations I checked worked and each source is well integrated with the article. It’s a little different style of citation from what I’m used to but the sources all match up with the information presented on the article. All facts are referenced with strong references, coming from academic journals, books, dictionaries, and peer reviewed articles. These are neutral sources as they are all published and most have decent, solid reviews. Some of the information is slightly dated psychology but it doesn’t seem to have progressed a significant amount since the late 90s so it really isn’t far removed from modern information.

The talk page has a lot about mergers and focuses mainly on the modern education method instead of the ancient socratic method. The ancient method has already really been established and researched thoroughly. Most of the important matters are phrasing, organization, and possibly overlaps with other pages on wikipedia. From the talk page, the article is rated C-class, with high-importance to multiple WikiProjects including: Greece, Classical Greece and Rome, Philosophy, Alternative education, etc. The article focuses a lot on modern educational practices rather than the historical and more theoretical meanings of the Socratic method, so I think I could contribute more to the development part of the page, since other pages have more information I can consolidate and add further research.