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Article evaluation: Ahmad ibn Fadlan
The Wikipedia article for Ahmad Ibn Fadlan is presented in a neutral scholarly tone without anything that stands out to me as being biased to any significant degree. What is included in the article is predominantly with regards to his travel account and the history of the manuscript, with little information about his biography other than what could be ascertained in his text. I think it's understandable that this is the case, because unless there were more manuscripts that have survived that specifically detail Ibn Fadlan's biography, this information wouldn't be readily available. This lack of information is elaborated in the References section. The article itself links to a handful of other related and potentially supplemental articles, one of my favorite being that of Ahmad ibn Rustah and the contrast in his depiction of the Rus' people. Most of its citations are journal articles that don't link to the sources themselves and require searching for access. The Talk page of the article is filled with a lot of discourse on Ibn Fadlan's ethinicity, his name, as well as the removal of a controversy section over Fadlan's role of proselytizing in supposedly Christian lands.