User:Mallory Dixon/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
History of the Incas - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it relates to my major of Social Studies education. A big interest of mine is Ancient World History and is a subject I would love to teach when I graduate.

Evaluate the article

 * note box saying that citations were needed to be added for verification
 * they only have 2 entered citations and 2 other references, one which states it doesn't exist
 * lead section: Has a decent amount of information but no proof of verification for more than half of it.
 * I would add things like any religious beliefs or traditions
 * this article talked a lot about the Spanish and how they conquered and then after it was conquered, I feel like more can be found on daily life as well
 * There doesn't seem to be any bias in the article.
 * without a decent amount of citations it is hard to tell whether the article is paraphrased or written in the authors own words.
 * start class rated article
 * weakness: lack of citations
 * there could be more images used to show any ruins or artifacts that have been found to talk about beliefs/ religions/ traditions etc.
 * they have an image of a 17th century painting relating to part of the article to help elaborate on the relationship with the royal queens of Cuzco
 * they do have a side bar with links to wiki pages on the religion and other topics, I still feel a brief explanation on things could be useful to have. Keep the links there for a more in depth look at each topic but there should be an overview at least.

talk page:


 * nominated to be deleted in 2006 to possibly merge with another article
 * "I disagree about the merge. All countries and most civilizations have individual history articles, and the Inca was the most advanced pre-columbian civilisation in South America, so it definitely deserves its own article for the history" this was posted to try to keep the article from being deleted
 * 1 person modified an external link
 * 1 person spoke of how "atrocious" the article was. Talked about having no citations and formatting being wrong. They said they didn't feel they had enough knowledge to do the article justice and give it the attention it needs.

- easy to read in a sense, maybe some pronunciation keys could help due to all the names of people and places from the ancient world. Makes the reading harder when you dont know how to pronounce so many things in an article.

- broken into easily understood sections (definitely could be more sections though)

- content is relevant to the subject but I feel like it focuses more on the end of the Empire than the middle and evening beginning