User talk:AZ0000ZA

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Article evaluation

This article is part of the Military History WikiProject and the WikiProject Classical Greece, both having Start-Class assessments. The introductory paragraph is very brief, only a sentence in length. It could be expanded by an abstract. The overall article is without bias for the most part. The flow of the article is somewhat cohesive. There are points where the article skips around in time. There are some instances where an author would reach conclusions leaving some content in doubt. When referencing an influential person the article could expand on their importance. For instance a small brief description, whether they where a general, king, philosopher, etc. The article has a lack of citations. The section, Imperial cavalry (30 BC – 476 AD), is several paragraphs long but only has two citations. There is only one online citation and it is broken. Most of citations are from written sources and they do not give the full source. There are several things that could be added to the article. A section on the tactics used by cavalry, in example whether they used the hammer and anvil tactic. Expanding on the armaments used by the cavalry at each age. There are only a few lines that mention this for some some ages mainly the Imperial and Regal ages. The type of horses used and how they where breed. The lack of mention of the Eastern Roman Empire cavalry could be expanded on. The article could also mention how specific Roman generals used cavalry, if at all. The talk page is sparse most of the comments are on missing citations. However there is a discussion on the battle tactics used by the Roman cavalry. We have yet to reach the section dealing with Romans but the article reinforces what we have read so far that cavalry was a powerful innovation that was used by ancient empires to grow in strength. The article also has several pictures mostly of mosaics. This could maybe be expanding by posting archaeological pictures, if they exist, of the equipment used by cavalry. The article has a good starting point. The lack of citations is something to be remedied.