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Article Evaluation:

The article titled Hildegard of Bingen appears to have all pertinent information relating to her life. The information presented gives context to her life, works, and importance during and after her life. There was no information that distracted me or seemed out of place or out of date, especially because there are references to works from as recent as 2014. Nothing appears to be missing or needs to be added, based on personal research of the topic.

The tone of the article is neutral and discusses the topic in a manner that places fact over opinion. The article appears to have a positive view of the subject, while criticism is lacking, but that may be due to the nature of the subject and a lack of critical scholarship.

Some of the links to the citations work, but for example, citation 78 does not take you to an article that supports the claim stated on the Wikipedia page. Therefore, it is uncertain if each individual fact is supported with an appropriate or reliable source. The aforementioned example links to uscatholic.org, which is a biased newspaper written by and for Catholics and is full of advice for this community.

There are numerous discussions on the Talk page that reflect an update of information as it becomes available. For example, the issue of canonization of Hildegard is discussed thoroughly and was then updated in 2012, when she was named a Doctor of the Church. There are also discussions where editors ask each other for help on adding links and checking for plagiarism, as well as critiquing the focus on certain topics such as sex that featured so rarely in her life and writings.

The article is part of multiple WikiProjects such as Women's History and Women Scientists and is rated as a level-4 vital article. This means it is part of 10,000 topics for which Wikipedia should have featured-class articles.

Differing from the way we discussed this topic in class, the Wikipedia article focuses on her life in the monastery and her contributions outside of medicine, such as music and the language she created.

Bibliography/Notes
she went out with a pistol to protect herself at night at some point she worked for a department store at denver's daniels and fischer.

she was 27 years old when she started her medical practice.

she recieved backlash from her patients, especially the women. One of whom refused to pay her for her services when she found out she was a woman.

encouraged by her father who had also volunteered with mcgee, she began to study medicine.

when she worked as an anesthetist, she began with whiskey, as that is what was available, but eventually they moved to chloroform and then ether, which she said was harder to use.

she practiced medicine for 15 years, but kept her license up to date her whole life.

one of three women in her graduating class.

often rode up to forty miles on a horse to treat patients.

running from october to march, the medical school was taught during the cool season so that they could learn on fresh cadavers.

her practice was at 111 W. Cedar Street.

In 1895, she was the only woman to attend the American Medical Association convention in Denver, Colorado. and she would model clothes when she had free time.

she married her husband at the age of thirty three in 1898.

after retiring from medicine, she ran the Ben-Mar Hotel in Lamar, Colorado with her husband. Afterwards, she returned to Rawlins in 1911. In 1940, she was named "M.D. -Private Practitioner". In 1955 she flew to denver to inspect hospitals.