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Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? The shortness of the Emergence in 1588 section is very jarring, but otherwise everything I read over was relevant to the history of smallpox outbreaks across the world.

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? There is a viewpoint that smallpox only recently emerged in 1588 AD and that earlier cases were simply misdiagnoses, but there is very little information about this claim otherwise, and no other viewpoints are mentioned in that section or any section close to it.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? Almost everything is cited, didn’t quite have time to go through every citation but at a glance they looked like they were from reliable literature, science/medical journals, etc.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? The theory that smallpox emerged in 1588 needs to be elaborated on. Who came up with the theory, any notable scientists who hold it, evidence to prove/disprove the theory, no pictures I noticed anywhere (I’m not sure if any are needed for this topic though).

Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? One person removed images of the disease because they thought it was distasteful to have pictures of the disease’s effects on an article about its history.

How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? Part of wikiprojects on science of death and medicine

How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? We have not discussed smallpox yet

PaladinSandalphon (talk) 16:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)