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Article Evaluation

Everything seems to be relevant to the article topic, the subject is about Mozi's life or " Mo Ti" and his teachings. The article consisted of 4 sections of life, philosophy, works and influence, and Mohism and science, with a subsection of his ethics under philosophy. This is all very relevant considering the fact the Mozi was the teacher of his competing school of thought that influenced Zhou China in the warring states period, so all of the sections fit perfectly. After thoroughly looking through these sections the only things that seemed to be distracting is the last section labeled “Mohism and Science” which related a sentence in the collection of writings to being similar to newton's first law of motion.

This article appears to be neutral. There are not any claims or frames that appear heavily biased toward a particular position, as there isn’t much of a position to grab. The only bias there would be to grab would be the scale in which he influenced in comparison to confucianism. Which clearly wasn’t illustrated in the article, it gave the information relevant and stayed neutral and informative.

I believe that there really aren’t any viewpoints that are overrepresented or underrepresented as this was a very well-balanced article with nothing but neutral and informative points on the subject.

The sources of the few citations I checked did more than just support the claims of the article in which it was cited after. It supported other claims unrelated to that specific citation in the article.

Each fact seems to be referenced with an appropriate and reliable reference. All of these sources come from university presses or encyclopedias in which educated and professional historians are broadcasting their findings and knowledge on the subject with no outside opinions or bias.

There is definitely some information that is out of date with university publishings from Cambridge University in 1956. However, that is not a surprise considering the subject that the article is on (a teacher of a school of thought that existed thousands of years ago). So, I’m not sure how many new findings could realistically be added and keep the information relevant as the older information was just for a small reference as of his life history. From the sources listed and my known information on the subject from the textbook “Worlds Together, Worlds Apart” there isn’t anything missing that could be added. The article serves it purpose of informing the reader in a whole and solid way.

There was minor talk of pronunciation and spelling of Mozi’s surname in different language and dialects concerning the characters. There was also a very interesting relation between christianity and mohism discussed in the talk section of this article discussing that the ideas of “jian” meaning universal and “bie” meaning differential, tie together well with other christian concepts. On representation of of the topic all that was addressed was that a lot of information was added that couldn’t really be differentiated between myth and fact because it was supposedly directly from the Mozi (the book named after him containing material ascribed to him and his followers) and other chinese writings.

The article is rated C-class, and is not directly part of any wiki projects but is “within the scope” of WikiProject Biography / Science and Academia, Wikiproject philosophy, Wikiproject China/History, Wikiproject politics, and Wikiproject Religion. But, is specifically marked as highly important to Wikiproject philosophy.

Wikipedia discussed this topic in way more detail than we talked about in class because the mere subject of Mozi specifically never directly came up. Mozi is associated with the warring states period and is discussed in the textbook as being of help to warring states in terms of fortification and tried to address issues faced in early warring states period just like Confucius and Master Lao and was considered a competitive school of thought that favored a simple life and believed that each man should feel obligated to all other people, especially in this time of war and conquest