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Talk:1st Infantry Division (United States)Which article are you evaluating?
Talk:1st Infantry Division (United States)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have always had an interest in the United States Army. My grandfather served in the Army and I would like to learn more about the 1st Infantry specifically during our most famous wars. This article appears to have plenty of information surrounding this specific branch of the military.

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This article leads with a very strong sense of structure. This article introduced what the 1st Infantry Regiment is and specially explained their actions during the Vietnam war; This provided good background information on the topic of the article. This leads me into the content; the content in this article is non bias and directed strictly towards facts and research done towards this unit of the military. Journal entries, maps, and other sources have provided a very neural stance on the subject while portraying the facts very well. While the content is primarily focused on the military regiment, some of the information is slightly dated ranging from 2003 to 2007.

In terms of the sources, this article and talk page in general lacked quantity of sources for some sections. On some of the attached external links there have been red flags from editors that have not reviewed them yet. These links were not reliable. Another example of a lack in sources would be that one primary source was used for most of the information in this article. This raises red flags as its clear that there is not a diverse area of sources. This is not the case for all of the information, some of the sources and links have been approved and been made error free by editors. I found the article fairly easy to read. There were a number of different areas on the content page and I was able to navigate the article easily. For example, at the top of the page there was a "Contents" section listened with a guide to all of the main information points of the article. These ranged from Maps and images to historic battles and flags.

Overall, this article was very well organized but it lacked some sources in the content areas. I was able to take away a lot of great information from this article however it lacked some sources and reliable links. While I learned a lot about the Army and the 1st Infantry, I would suggest that this article used more sources and had editors clear the rest of there external links. The journal entries, and visual pictures helped make the information that was reliable quite easy and nice to process. I also enjoyed the well organized table of contents which gave an overview of everything. With ore sources, this article and talk page could grow even better.