wikipedia ugh

I looked up the Battle of Marathon on Wikipedia and got more than I bargained for. The article was lengthy to the point of being inhibiting. It is broken up into different sections, each detailing some aspect of the battle. Being a historical reference piece it basically described the events preceding, during, and after this famous battle between Persia and the Greeks involved.
The article is roughly 5,500 words long. That is a lot of words. The problem is that I felt our own reading was more consise, informative, and understandable than was this article. The article was created on the 14th of December, 2001, and there have been seeming 500+ changes to it, the most recent being this very day that I write this review. On the page discussion you will find that this article was once listed as a historical Good Article, but has since been delisted. There are seventy two references listed, but only 3 external links. The pictures were nice, but not redeeming.
For those interested in this material I would honestly steer them wide of this page. The section about the numbers of people involved in the battle was so muddled and contradictory that I ended up just skipping over it. The end of the article talks about the “legend of the marathon run.” This is the only part of the article I actually found useful and interesting, and even this part didn't seem to want to be clear on the subject. There are far better resources found online than this Wikipedia article.