User:Sagegreen04/Evaluate an Article

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Inca Empire

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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I chose to look over the Inca empire because I wanted to know more about the sacrifices that were performed and what they meant. Therefore, going into this article I focused my attention on the religious section to uncover those reasons. The article itself is concise, but also incorporates useful background information over the Incas and the successors of the throne.

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.)

Lead section

The beginning of the article does provide information on the main topic of the article and briefly expands on the initiation of the Inca Empire. The intro consists of the Inca's architecture and culture work, as well as the tax system that was placed to have people do the labor work which was the main reason on the Incas high economic status. It briefly introduced how Inca leadership encouraged the praise of the sun god. It introduced the economy, government, arts and technology, society, and religion. However, it could incorporate the subjects of the adaptation to altitude.

Overall analysis

Some of the work sited in the article is from the early 2000, with more in-depth revision, more up to date articles could be found with a fresher outlook of the content while still holding the scholarly outlook on the history of the Inca Empire. In the society section under population, the third sentence briefly incorporates the quipus. More information could be added on what exactly were the uses of the quipus and how they were able to gather in formation from this technology. Looking through the links inserted inn the references, there were a few that were unable to load and open. When improving this article, it would be helpful to look for another scholarly source that can provide a resemblance to the information regarding the Pachamama located in the Etymology. It would be helpful to also provide articles that are accessible for all people. Like for example, in the Antecedents section it mentions the Andean cultures though the work cited is a book that is need to be purchased. Looking into free accessible resources would help strengthen this already strong article. The images depicted in each section help the reader contrast what is being said with the image shown. Like in the Origin section, the picture of Marco Cápac holding the golden staff helped me visualize how the magic staff would have appeared. In the talk page, I observed a few commentaries on the correct wording on certain words that were mentioned throughout the article. The dispute is based on the correct wording in English like for example the use of the word "Inca" and "Incan". It seems to have been used as Tahyantinsuyu as the name though it's just the location, therefore it is believed to be more appropriate to use Incan Empire or Inca. Overall, the article is very strong and provides a good amount of useful information over the Incan Empire. It can be improved by fixing the wording of certain words to keep the article closely accurate as possible to avoid any miscommunication.