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Ancus Marcius


 * I am evaluating this article because I intend to improve it in the future.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Article immediately starts off saying that Ancus Marcius is the fourth king of Rome and a legendary figure.
 * Article has a table of contents of his first acts as king, war, and his death and successor.
 * Article's Lead features Ancus Marcius's dates of birth, death, and the time of his reign. It also mentions how the Roman Senate introduced the Interrex after Tullus Hostilius.
 * The lead is brief but concise and does a fine job of introducing Ancus.

Lead evaluation
The Lead is quite competent but I feel like it might be a bit on the short side. Hopefully I can find relevant information to improve it. I am also unsure how relevant the mention of the Interrex is since it sounds more relevant to Tullus Hostilius than Ancus.

Content

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 * Besides the aforementioned interrex, the article is very relevant to what we know of Ancus' life and achievements.
 * I am unsure if the article includes everything we know about Ancus, but I will be making sure it is up-to-date in the future.
 * All content seems relevant to the article. I am unsure of what could be missing.

Content evaluation
I think it is too early for me to say what could be missing from the article as I intend to improve it soon. I imagine there are improvements to be made, I am just not sure what they are yet

Tone and Balance

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 * Article has a neutral tone
 * Article has no particular bias
 * There is much more in the 'War' category than the 'First Acts as King' and 'Death and successor'
 * Article isn not persuading me to any particular view

Tone and balance evaluation
The article comes across as completely neutral but the 'War' section is much longer than the other two. There could very well be information out there that can be added to the less represented sections.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * A template message at the top of the article says it relies too much on primary sources and could use some secondary and tertiary sources.
 * Most of the links to the sources take you to the Wikipedia pages that the information was sourced from. For example, one source on Ancus was from the Encyclopædia Britannica, but the link just takes you to it's Wikipedia page.
 * One source is from a webpage reproducing a work from 1914, so it seems that source is not up-to-date.
 * The links work but most of them do not take me to where the information was obtained from.

Sources and references evaluation
I seem unable to access the information that was used to make the Ancus Marcius article from the links themselves, and the one that does take me to some information is out-of-date. The sources are lacking in anything substantial.

Organization

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 * Article is easy to read.
 * I see no spelling or grammatical errors.
 * Article has sections that properly sort information on Ancus.

Organization evaluation
The article is well-organized. It is easy to read and the sections are sorted out well.

Images and Media

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 * Article has pictures showing a depiction of Ancus and of coin depicting him.
 * Image captions tell what the images are.
 * Depiction of Ancus is in public domain and the coin image is from Wiki Commons.
 * The images look nice on the article.

Images and media evaluation
There are only a couple of images but they are relevent to the article. I feel another image would be helpful, perhaps a map of Ostia?

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * There appears to be conflicting information on the Numa Pompilius page stating that Ancus was murdered.
 * Article falls under the scope of the Biography, Royalty and Nobility, and Classical Greece and Rome WikiProjects.
 * There is no discussion, save for the disclaimer of controversial information on the Numa page discussed earlier.

Talk page evaluation
The talk page has very little going on with it. No discussion between multiple people.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * Article is start-class.
 * Article has brief but concise information on Ancus Marcius.
 * More information should be added to the under-developed sections and another image or two should be added.
 * Article is well-developed but I am sure it can be improved further.

Overall evaluation
Overall, the article is pretty well-developed. It has good information on the topic and no real bias or errors on that front. However, there is the issue of balance between the sections with 'War' having far more substantial information than the others. The article is also in need of more secondary and tertiary sources as well as ones that can be easily linked to and found. Having images of the lands Ancus waged war with would be helpful as well. The article accomplishes having clear and concise info, it just needs more to it.


 * What other acts did Ancus decree when he first became king? Is there anything more to be said there?
 * - MetaFeta777 (talk) 22:11, 1 February 2020 (UTC)


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