User:Pamela McVay/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(History of the Republic of China)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(I am learning to to "evaluate an article", an exercize my students will be doing in a few months. I teach a survey history of China every third semester, so I know something about the subject. The article seemed a manageable size topic)

Evaluate the article
(This is blow-by-blow political history. Is that the intent of the article? If so, maybe the title would be better as "Political and Military History of the Republic of China." If the article is about the ROC itself, it should broaden focus to include such standard sectuions as "geography," "economics," "culture," and "society." At present the article ignores virtually all aspects of normal people's lives. The ROC's attempts to improve women's rights provides no specific reforms, names no women, and says nothing about how the reforms impacted people. The bibliography includes numerous high quality sources, but many of them are very old, and they are either very general histories or political histories. The internal references rely excessively on materials apparently published by the government of Taiwan, but those links are now dead. I would recommend incorporating more current research on a more diverse array of subjects. In addition, I think the first few sentences should mention the ROC's ambiguous international status.)