User:Tdinello/Evaluate an Article

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History of propaganda

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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This topic does relate to our class even though it’s not something we’ve heavily discussed. I wasn’t completely sure where they would start out in history and that countries they would be discussing.

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The lead starts the article out very well, it helps you understand what exactly they are going to be talking about throughout the rest of the page. There are also links to other pages that will help readers out as well. This article has a lot of really good information that starts all the way back in 500 B.C. and goes until modern times. The one issue I have with this article is that it is a lot of information that is kind of hard to digest all at once. This one article should be split up into several different articles. They discuss propaganda during wars like World War I and II, which was expected and really helpful. However, they then go into wars in other countries, and the information is good, it is just hard to see the connections between the information they chose to include. I think the section that talks about propaganda films is kind of just thrown in there, and obviously relates to the topic but doesn’t really relate with what they chose to discuss in the sections before this one.

The talk page shows people voicing similar concerns to me, someone even said that they wanted to create a separate article for simply “Western Propaganda” which I think is a good idea. Someone also said that this article was “Laughable” because it didn’t include Putin, which I don’t agree with the word choice of their statement, but that is strange Putin isn’t included when there are multiple sections that deal with Russia.