taekwondo1-10, Exercise 3: A plan for another art

Model answer (judo as the example; any art works):

1. Who is the author? Good: a named federation, historian or museum, with a way to contact them. Warning: an anonymous page or a commercial school site with no author.
2. What is the evidence for the oldest claims? Good: named manuals, records or objects, and a statement of what is uncertain. Warning: "ancient" or "secret" lineages with no sources, or a founder's own account as the only evidence.
3. Is there a chain from old to new? Good: named teachers and dates, with breaks acknowledged. Warning: an unbroken lineage claimed across a war, a ban or a long gap, with no names.
4. Which family or organisation does the page belong to? Good: the page says which body or style it describes and acknowledges others. Warning: "the only authentic style" claims, and silence about rival organisations.
5. What numbers and dates are given, and where do they come from? Good: each figure with a source and a year. Warning: round totals ("millions of practitioners") and dates that differ from other reputable pages with no explanation.

Sources: the checklist in Chapter 10.