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Article Evaluation: "The Plough and the Stars"
- At first glance there are no warning banners indicating that there are problems with the article.

- All of the information provided in the article is relevant to the topic, and none of it distracts the reader away from the topic. Although the article stays on topic, some of the points that are included have very little information which can, in a way, distract from the topic due to a lack of interesting/important information with relation to the topic so it would be easy to get distracted away from the article.

- For the information provided, what is present is fairly basic information. The plot summaries are short and only cover the major happenings of the acts - this can be expanded to include the more "subtle" parts of the play, such as the stage directions or the dialog, which would help expand the knowledge that is being presented to the reader.

- The reaction section can be significantly expanded in order to explain why the play was met with criticism and riots. Sources need to be found for this section in order to expand it as well as back up the existing text since no reference is given for the quote attributed to Yeats.

- A section can be created to explain the political aspects of the play and how it related to the political climate of the time. This can include the main themes of the play so that readers can get a better idea of what the play is about (or this can be made into a different section on its own depending on the amount of information).

- The fact that this play is part of O'Casey's "Dublin Trilogy" is mentioned in the article's introduction (without citation) but there is no other information regarding this mentioned. More information should be added about this if it is relevant enough to the play.

- The article's introduction should give a good overview of the article, yet this article only gives a brief overview of the play's bibliographical information, there is no information concerning the play's themes, plot or reception which are the topics that are actually covered in the article. Some of the information mentioned in the introductory section are not mentioned again in the article, which means that the introduction is not very good in accordance to wikipedia standards.

- The article is neutral in tone, it merely states facts about the play. No position at all is indicated in the article, such as who it was that rioted against the play (their political allegiances, etc) which would be useful information to provide in a neutral way. Information on the various viewpoints/outlooks on the play are heavily underrepresented and should be included if references can be found.

- There are a few minor grammatical errors in the article than can be corrected.

- One of the sources (possibly the only academic one) listed is now unavailable for viewing. Three of the other sources are references to the adaptions of the play rather than the play itself, which makes them of little help to understanding the actual play. The fifth and final reference is from a site aimed at communists with various texts against capitalism and other regimes, which makes it a very biased source of information that should not be included as a reference for any article on Wikipedia. Overall this indicates that there are no reliable, helpful, non-biased sources that are linked to this article which means that much (if not all) of what is said in the article must be fact checked through other means in order to confirm their validity.

- The talk page for this article is practically empty. One person has noted changes that were made in order to differentiate the play from the movie with the same name. The only other comment on the talk page is a personal note of a part of they play they enjoyed with a suggestion to add in a character list. No discussions are on going, and the page has not been edited since February 2018. The last few edits that were made to the page were minor grammatical changes and the addition of a link to view the play online, nothing important was added in terms of information for over a year.

- The article is rated as a Start class level article with medium importance in the WikiProjects for Ireland and for Theatre. It has likely been rated as medium importance due to the fact that it made people react, it was not merely another play to be liked or disliked. What it says/represents affected people, so the article should reflect this importance and have more details about it to give a better sense of what makes it of "medium importance" for Ireland and Theatre in general.