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 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * The article is relevant to the article topic and it flows really well. The reason it flowed so well was because the article and evaluation didn't have any distractions.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Everything was neutral.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * No.
 * Check the citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * All links, citations and supporting claims are perfect.

The article that I found interesting is about the Japanese comfort women during WWII. Majority of these women were taken from occupied countries that Japan invaded. These women where then brought into and forced into prostitution. Emperor Hirohito was concerned with its impact on Japan’s image. So he ordered more brothels to be expanded by the military to reduce the atrocity of these rapes and to reduce sexual transmitted diseases. “Recruiting” women for the brothels amounted to kidnapping or coercing them. Women were rounded up on the streets of Japanese-occupied territories, convinced to travel to what they thought were nursing units or jobs, or purchased from their parents as indentured servants.https://www.history.com/news/comfort-women-japan-military-brothels-korea Once they were at the brothels, the women were forced to have sex on a regular bases by their captors under brutal and at most times inhumane conditions. Each woman’s story was different, their testimonies share many similarities, repeated rapes that increased before battles, agonizing physical pain, pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and bleak conditions.

Sexuality in ancient Rome, and more broadly, sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome, are indicated in Roman Art and Literature, inscriptions, and by archaeological digs such as erotic artifacts and architecture. It has been assumed that unlimited sexual license was characteristic of ancient Rome, such as Verstraete and Provençal express the opinion that this perspective was simply a Christian interpretation: "The sexuality of the Romans has never had good press in the West ever since the rise of Christianity. In the popular imagination and culture, it is synonymous with sexual license and abuse.

Evaluating content


 * I changed my article for this assignment, since we talked about Sappho and read the book Sapphistries. The article is about Roman sexuality. I felt this page did talk about the different aspects of sexuality, but only briefly from a female perspective. The page is relevant to this project due to the fact that it does touch on Gay and Lesbian sexuality. The one thing that distracted me Is there a lot of information on male sexuality but not female sexuality. You can also see that when the Gods are talked about the Female Gods are monogamous or Virginal Lives.
 * No, the information is good, but they could have more information about positive roles women played, that had nothing to do with marriage and bearing children.
 * What could be improved is more information about women sexuality in a none repressive role.

Evaluating tone


 * Yes and No, the page appears to be neutral, since it talks about Roman history, but when it talks about women on women love and sexuality there is none. It only express that women were revered for bearing children and being virgins till they wed, then they could experience sex. The article is very bias towards women in the effect that they were treated unfairly if they had sex before marriage.
 * The view points are very underrepresented.

Evaluating sources


 * I Checked a few citations, and the links work. As far as I can see the sources do support the claims in the article.
 * Each fact is referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference. The information comes from Skinner, Marilyn. Sexuality in Greek And Roman Culture. Blackwell Publishing., Ancona, Ronnie, and Greene, Ellen eds. Gender Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005., these are one a few that I found, but there are many many more. I feel that these are neutral sources when, the reason is that most people look at ancient Roman an think that this is were civilization started, democracy and expression of sexuality. So I think people don't want to get it wrong and they share everything that they have academically uncovered. These references are not bias.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * This article is related in the effect that it has to do with sexuality and sexual relationships during the Roman Empire. I am not sure if it is related to any WikiProjects, but I do know that one groups project has to do with Greek and Roman Mythology so there may be something there.
 * What we talked about in class has to do with the female/lesbian aspects of love/romanticism culture through out history and the evidence that is provided. Unfortunately most of our history books have been written by Hetero white males, so how much can we really a tribute to fact.