User talk:Aholiman/sandbox

Article evaluation

The article appears to be well written and pretty well researched. The article does a good job of being neutral, while it does seem to suggest more of a normanist view. While this view is more represented, it is the more widely accepted among scholars.

I do agree that there should be mention of the anti-normanist views, and think the authors of the page did a good job in how they were added in.

The only references that I could find online were links to obtain books, other wikipedia pages, and one in Cyrillic, which I can not read.

The talk page discusses mainly fine points such as who the Rus truly were, were they the ruling class, or were they all the people in the area Rus. They also talk about how the page should be formatted, if it should be merged with an etymology page for the word Rus so on and so forth.

I wasn't able to tell if the references agreed with the material as it seems the biggest references were books that I do not have. The only other references which were linked were other wiki pages and one in Cyrillic.

The article does appear to be a part of WikiProjects and is a page of interest for many of the pages involved.

Aholiman (talk) 08:27, 2 November 2017 (UTC)aholiman