User:Thmacdon/sandbox

Article Evaluation

I am going to evaluate the Eldad ha- Dani article. To begin, I think that the article was pretty good (as far a s structure goes) I did not feel myself becoming distracted by things that didn't have to do with the topic. Yes, there were things like 19th century opinion's and thoughts on Prester John but I thought that these worked to give the reader a bigger picture of what was going on so I was okay with them. I also thought that the article was neutral. I din't feel swayed in any way when reading the article and it did not seem like the author was trying to sway me in one we or the other. Because of the nature of this piece, there wasn't really a point of view that could be championed over another so I thought it was pretty neutral. Where this article fell down was in citations. I thought that it really dropped the ball with citing facts. It has a bibliography but many of the citations did not link to anything useful. In addition, the article did not cite where certain facts were coming from (as in, which fact aligns with which source). I have no idea if the references are reputable because they are barely there. I think that the info is up to date because of the nature of the topic. The talk page was crazy. It was two people writing about racism/ discrimination. It was like an info wars type forum. It did bring to my attention some more issues with the article however, like the representation of the Jewish voice. I have to read more about it before I can figure out how I might address that issue. I think that to improve we first have to nail down citations and reference different facts. This is such a basic thing but needs to be done. After that, the content can be tweaked to make it represent all people a little bit better.