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Article Evaluation: Ghana Empire

The article on the Ghana Empire is rated as start-class, meaning that this article is is developing and is incomplete. This article is also the topic of two different WikiProject Africa/Mali/Mauritania and WikiProject Former Countries. The article was relevant to the topic and there were some distractions that led me off topic. I think that these distractions are due to the fact that it is still a developing article, so more could be added in or taken out to keep the readers on track with the topic. I would say that the article is neutral. The author did a good job at keeping the article biased, and I didn't see any opinions that would make anything biased. A lot of the topics in this article didn't have complete thoughts. I wouldn't say that any of the topics were overrepresented, but there were a couple that were underrepresented. I topic of Etymology only had a couple of sentences, while the economy had multiple paragraphs. Most of the references are from book sources, but from the links that were given, they all support the claims that were given in the article. I didn't notice any citation errors, and the information comes from neutral sources. The information seems up to date, although I am not too familiar with the topic. Most of the conversations in the Talk page are older, it seemed that this article has had a lot more work put into it, because in 2004, people were saying that this article needed work and didn't have the correct information. Since then, there has been conversation about more information being put in, and little talk about having wrong citations and confusing topics. We have gone over the different regions in Africa in our class, but haven't really had a focus on Ghana. Otherwise, they bring up the same main topics and ideas that we have used in the first couple of chapters in the textbook.