User:MrBean48/sandbox

Article Content

Content Relevancy

There does not appear to be any significant amount of content that detracts from the main idea. In regards to the information being relevant, it remains rather consistent. There is not a noticeable appearance of contradictory statements or confusing statements at all. The article is short and simple in regards to the relaying of information to the reader.

Discussing Bias

Right off the bat it appears the article attempts to persuade you into believing that the elite are greedy people who care only for each other, this can be seen by the picture of the elite feasting at a table while there is a starving group beneath. The article seems to give no attempt in balancing them out with maybe a picture of the elites guiding society into prosperity or something similar.
In fact there is only one sentence in the article that may be mildly flattering. The first sentence in the section impacts of the economy states they seek to lower taxes, especially for the wealthy. From a fiscal standpoint lowering taxes decreases the financial burden of an individual, however being followed up by "especially for the wealthy" implies that they only do it for themselves, which again seems rather damning. If there was a single underrepresented viewpoint in the article it would have to be the idea that the elite are not an evil greedy group. Regardless of the reality, whatever it may be, the article does not present itself in a neutral way. The article as read seemed to only focus on the negative aspects on the group and had little effort to balance out the viewpoints that it did.

Evaluation of Sources

The first thing that was noticed involved a strange citation. In slot 13 of the citations the source is simply Carson. The citation in question is used as the source for a claim based on the book Imperialism and World Economy by: Nikolai Bukharin. There is no link attached to the citation so there is no justification for carson to be the only thing in the source. Upon clicking the link Wikipedia itself tells you the source is vague and may fall under the category of weasel words. Wikipedia talks about these weasel words stating they are used in a manner where no source is given and is written as if it is common proven knowledge with statements like "Many scientists believe.... or Most people agree that...". There is no source for the claim and even Wikipedia is denouncing it.

The Power Elite

The book The Power Elite is referenced many times, and used as a source for many claims in the article. However, there is not a single citation that cites the book correctly. sources 4, 11, & 21 all exclude a date of publication, city of publication, and publisher. Sources 6, & 8 both omit the city of publication, and the publisher. Fortunately all of the sources include the page number their claims are based on. Though the citation to the source is not done very well, since the source is easy to track down and the page numbers are referenced in the source anyone looking to verify the claims should not have a very difficult time at all.

Outdated Sources?

There are several sources in this article that are quite old. The Power Elite is around 60 years old. The book Imperialism and World Economy was written in 1929. While some could argue this makes the sources obsolete, this is addressed in the article. These sources are used to draw attention to the historical meaning of the group while more recent studies usher in the evidence of more modern relevancy. The bulk of the numerical data and statistics have been done in the last decade as recently as studies from 2016.

Wikiprojects and Ratings

As of right now there are two wikiprojects pages that are linked to the article. There is the sociology, and politics wikiproject pages, both of which currently rate the page at start quality, and of high importance