User:Rkosi/sandbox

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Article Evaluation
Classical Elements, Section on Greece specifically


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Yes, all seemed relevant.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Not particularly
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * The entire section is rather brief. It is relatively balanced in its representation, with no particular element of the topic being over or under represented, relative to the others, but the entire section could be expanded.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * The entire section I evaluated is sourced by three hard copy books with only one online source. I could be wrong, but it appears as though the one online source is a link to the Greek Language wikipedia article on the same subject.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * I can't confirm the neutrality or veracity of the hard book sources. However, there are two or three facts presented that should have been sourced, that did not have a reference listed.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * The primary source used in the section is a book from 1995. I can't confirm the veracity of the book, as it is a hard print copy I do not own, but I feel certain that more recent sources exist.
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * There have been no posts in the talk page for several years, with the exception of discussion of citation formatting. And nothing in the entire talk page history seems specifically related to the section of the article I am evaluating.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * It is a C-Class article, rated mid-importance, to the WikiProject Chemistry, WikiProject Philosophy, and WikiProject Religion/Interfaith.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * The section I evaluated is presented in a broader global context than we explored in class, however, it lacks several important details and factors that we went into in class, such as the weight or levity of the four elements, and how they relate to Aristotelian physics.