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Article Evaluation

I chose to evaluate the Wikipedia article on The Great Purge. I felt that it was a fantastic example of a well flesh out article. Overall the article seems to be unbiased and facts have citations. There are a few facts that do need citations still, and thats actually how I came across the article. I was using the citation hunter and a fact about the Dewey Commission came up. Since I actually own a book about that, I figured I would see if I could find a citation from there and fortunately, there was and I was able to verify the fact and add the citation. Almost all of the sources seem to be English language publication, which may point towards a bias with the material. There were only a few listed sources that were Russian in origin.

The article is only rated "B" class, so there is certainly room for improvement and it does seem like a lot of people are working to do that. The article is a part of several WikiProjects. It's interesting to see how different project intersect. It shows how important this topic is for a myriad of reasons. I was intrigued by the WikiProject Death, who's aim is to improve the quality of articles about death on Wikipedia. I think having people invested in the article for different reasons will help to make it stronger and more factual.