User talk:Jkropinova

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Article Evaluation

I chose this artwork for my article evaluationKouros. I believe that this article is relevant regarding the topic of this particular sculpture. The article explores a modern term Kouros, 530 B.C., which refers to a free standing Greek sculpture that is discovered in the Archaic period in Greece.The sculpture meaning is assigned to male youth in the noble ranks. The article appear to be neutral and there are no biased opinions that might be contributed towards a specific side of the information. During the article the writer repeats him or herself various times. For example they state "These free-standing sculptures were typically marble, but the form is also rendered in limestone, wood, bronze, ivory and terracotta. They are typically life-sized, though early colossal examples are up to 3 meters tall" Kouros. By repeating word typically, the writer creates a confusion about the subject. The writer does a great job using simple words that are easy to understand while siting paragraphs and sentences, this allows the reader to fact check the information presented in the article. There does not seem to be any claims that are biased towards a specific position. By comparing and contrasting the figure sculpture to a different sculpture the writer allows the viewer to see that his words are not biased and have facts and truth to them based on cross reference to another. The links and citations with in the article are up to date and support the information presented about the original figure. The reference that is used after almost each statement and paragraph are there, when you hover over a small number at the end of the sentence, it gives you the information on where the facts came from. For example what books, journals, scholarly articles. The author breaks up the information by ancient Greek words that justify the authors facts and statements regarding the Kouros figure. The information is up to date in this particular article, it even focuses on different orders that are assigned towards specific type of artwork, just as we learned in class. I personally enjoyed one of the comments on the article with in the talk page. "Why is it necessary to parenthetically disambiguate the god when all the other uses of the term "Apollo" have natural disambiguators? The god doesn't have a natural disambuguator so I say the article on the god should be at Apollo and at the top of that article there should be a disambiguation block. Unless somebody gives me a good reason not to I will do this myself". I thought this was a valid point that was made and the writer of the article ended up changing the situations and even some of the article. The rating for this article is Delisted good article. This article is part of WikiProject Religion, WikiProject Mythology, WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome, WikiProject Greece, WikiProject LGBT studies. The topic discussed here is scholarly and very thorough, the author really does his or her research in order to portray the history about the sculpture in a correct way, it seems that he or she does not want to be biased.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]