User:RomanTravler/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Founding of Rome

Practice Citation for Exercise 2
Rome was founded with many different ideas and cultural influences and the true foundation of rome is unclear.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because it a broad enough topic and related to the class, so it seemed like a good option to look at. It matters because it focuses on how Rome was founded and thats essential to the topic I will be researching.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of the aritcle does a good job of introducing the facts and myths of the founding of Rome. The tone of the article is relativley neutral and seemed to balance well the different stories for the foundation of Rome. The sources are very abundant and seem to be reliable. The sources seem to be mostly from academic papers and other reputable sources. The writing was clear and concise and grouped together the key relating features of the aritcles. For example grouping the myths together and the actual historic evidence as well. The images on the article as useful however them seem to be focused mostly on myth and do not provide much more than an idea of the story of Romulus and Remus. There does not seem to be any recent conversations on this article other than a few small seemingly irrelevant details. Overall, this seems like a very good and well constructed article. It does a good job of showing both sides of the founding of Rome in an objective tone.