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Evaluating an Article

While the Great Tang Records of the West Wikipedia page is rather barren, and certainly want of more information, the information that is actually there is good and varied in scope. A number of topics, such as buddhism, India-China trade relations and the records's importance to archeologists are broached in the article, but never really expanded upon. The sources that shed light on all of these topics appear to be peer-reviewed and unbiased, except the archived Google "Wayback machine" article which had a broken link attached. In regards to the talk section of the page, there is very little activity, with only one annotation from a friendly Wikipedian, encouraging others to check his sources and edit whatever they find to be inaccurate. And though there is very little substance, in terms of quantity, on this page, there are multiple projects who are very interested in the growth of the Tang Records page. The three projects that the Talk page highlights are the WikiProject Books group, WikiProject China group, and the WikiProject India/Literature group, all of which rate the Tang Record article as a "Start", which is very, very low on the rating scale provided by Wikipedia. So, the article itself is currently at a very good starting point, but needs a much greater deal of attention and care so as to increase the quantity of information. The standard for quality has been set high, but there is an upper limit to how much will be learned from reading this page. Ccfinn (talk) 17:43, 6 November 2017 (UTC)