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"Article Evaluation"- Evaluation of Anna Maria Zieglerin Page:

Not everything in this article is relevant to the life of Anna Maria Zieglerin. For example, the very first sentence of the “Career” portion starts off with a statement about Sömmering and how he began working at the court of Duke Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Since this is an article about Zieglerin, it would be expected that all statements made would discuss Zieglerin and how she began to work for the Duke. The first statement could have stated, “In 1571, Zieglerin worked as an assistant for Sömmering at the court of Duke Julius [....].” The order of events in the “Early life” portion of the article was very distracting. Events seemed to be out of order. Details of certain events also seemed irrelevant and not important to the actual event that took place. For example, an important event in Zieglerin’s life would be the forced marriage to a court jester. The statement, “The marriage was not a happy one” was not relevant to the event and no further details on this marriage was discussed in how it played an impact in her life choices.

The article is neutral, there are no viewpoints that are particularly biased toward a particular position. Her actions may have been controversial, but the article does a good job or presenting her actions in an unbiased manner.

There are several details that are under represented. For example, the article mentions Zieglerin’s marriages and will make claims such as “it was a very unhappy one,” however, it fails to go into detail about the relationships. Additionally, the article mentions the crimes that Zieglerin and her counterparts were tried for but fails to explain the details as to how they were assigned the crimes in the first place.

One of the external links leads to a website that no longer exists. The other link leads to a site that does support the claims in the article, although the views in the site seem more opinionated. It flat out says that Zieglerin was greedy and murdered someone as a result of her greed. The article, however, does a good job of seeming unbiased, only stating that the court ruled she had murdered someone.

All the facts in the article are cited, with most of them coming from journal articles or books like Alchemical Reproduction or Searching for the Soror Mystica. One of the sources written by Tara Nummedal was an article about Martin Luther and had no mention of Zieglerin. The source title was “Alchemy and Religion in Christian Europe.”

There are several points that could be elaborated on: the article will mention a topic in one sentence or a phrase but then there is no other information regarding that topic in the rest of the article. For example, in the “Early Life” section the article mentions that she was married to a court jester, and it says the marriage is not a happy one, but the article stops discussing it after that sentence. It doesn’t elaborate on why or how the marriage was not successful. The “Trial and Death” section is a little abbreviated, there is more detail that could be added to that section that would make the information more complete.

The conversations on the Talk page are “grades” or evaluations on how well the article represents Anna Maria Zieglerin. All of them are either C or Low for importance and quality. There are four different sections that are discussed: biography portal, criminal justice portal, history portal, Germany portal.

While the Wikipedia page does speak about her alchemy work, it is not as emphasized and detailed as what we have talked about in class. It does not go into depth about why she was so important in the field of alchemy. In class, her work as an alchemist was the main point of discussion, but in the Wikipedia article it is kind of overshadowed by the other information regarding her Early Life and Trial and Death. Whee2123 (talk) 16:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)