User:TylerBennettasu/sandbox

kingdom of Norway 872-1397, poorly written article, jumpy, a lot of unexplained info, few sources, not enough pictures, poor grammar, needs a lot of work.

Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)

^said article, evaluate by 9/20, fix by 10/20.

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Evaluating kindom of norway (872-1397)

This article is factually correct and doesn't branch into other bigger topics. But that being said it is all over the place when it comes to timeline and how jumping back and forth between times. The person who wrote this would go ahead a hundred years for half a paragraph then go back down a hundred years. It felt really sloppy reading the article. The article also seems to be slightly biased towards a Norwegian nationalism. at times it sounds like we did this were pretty cool. People have voiced this in the talk page and tried to fix it but there are still a very noticeable amount of nationalistic bias when you read through. There is a small bit of history and brief overview, then it talks about territories they held for 75% of the article. It feels like there should really be more overview and absolutely more history added to make it seem more even and less of a territorial expansion story. There are multiple dead links and multiple incorrectly cited sources, on top of that even if they all worked and were cited correctly it would still need a good 4-5 more sources for the information it has now. So if you revise and add more information you could probably use another 7-10 sources to make it seem actually scholarly and properly written to be like an encyclopedia. None of the info is out of date but like I said I feel as if there is quite a bit of info lacking in this article. 600 years of history should not be done in what would be 2 pages max in a college textbook. The article is rated as a start class article and most people ahve said on top of bias that there are terms used in the article that were incorrect, and at a time the title was completely incorrect, calling Norway an empire, yet this mostly talks about expansion and territory. Overall this article is honestly a mess to the point where a complete rewrite will be needed in select sections. It is jumpy and poorly written and distracts you. It made me think multiple times "wait what how did we get here". It felt poorly planned but its a cool topic that should have a solid Wikipedia article written about it. I look forward to learning about Europe in this time period in class, because I really do not know much.

Added "The Black Death ended up depleting the Population By 65%, From roughly 350,000 to 125,000." to the article with source of a journal http://www.persee.fr/doc/adh_0066-2062_1996_num_1996_1_1915. which came up as a good source through Wikipedia and found on google scholar.