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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Micromégas


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article should be relevant. It's about one of Voltaire's works that is an early example of science-fiction. The book also seems to reflect Voltaire's thoughts on other Enlightenment thinkers. The article so far is pretty neutral, but heavily relies on a single citation to the book itself. Nobody seems to be on the Talk Page. It could probably use more discussion of its reception or how it fits with Voltaire's other work.


 * Sources
 * Nablow, Ralph Arthur. "WAS VOLTAIRE INFLUENCED BY LUCIAN IN "MICROMÉGAS?"" Romance Notes 22, no. 2 (1981): 186-91. Accessed October 22, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43801775.
 * Smith, Peter Lester. "New Light on the Publication of "Micromégas"." Modern Philology 73, no. 1 (1975): 77-80. Accessed October 22, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/436107.
 * https://gallica.bnf.fr/essentiels/voltaire/micromegas

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Two Tracts on Government


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is about a lesser-known, oft confused work by John Locke. The article so far is neutral but doesn't cover very much. It's well-cited so far and does not have a Talk Page. It could use more coverage of the actual works and how they've been received.


 * Sources
 * Moore, J. T. Ethics 78, no. 4 (1968): 319-20. Accessed October 22, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2379486.
 * Goldsmith, M. M. Political Science Quarterly 83, no. 4 (1968): 610-11. Accessed October 22, 2020. doi:10.2307/2146818.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Battista Guarino


 * Article Evaluation
 * We read one of his works, and he was a significant Humanist. What there is of an article is neutral, but very bare-bones. It doesn't have any citations, and is hardly a page at all without any Talk Page. It definitely could use a biography as well as a list of his works.


 * Sources
 * https://www.britannica.com/biography/Battista-Guarino
 * Grafton, A. T., and L. Jardine. "Humanism and the School of Guarino: A Problem of Evaluation." Past & Present, no. 96 (1982): 51-80. Accessed October 22, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/650510.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Antidisestablishmentarianism


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is about a movement that pushed back against some of the secular aspects of the Enlightenment that led some to seek to remove England's established church in the 18th and 19th centuries. The article is neutral and well-cited, although still pretty short. It has a long Talk Page that has been quiet since 2015, and I think it may benefit from greater placement of the movement with regards to its being a reactionary response to a movement stemming from the Enlightenment.


 * Sources
 * Rubenfeld, Jed. "Antidisestablishmentarianism: Why RFRA Really Was Unconstitutional." Michigan Law Review 95, no. 8 (1997): 2347-384. Accessed October 23, 2020. doi:10.2307/1290123.
 * Rubenfeld, Jed. "Did the Fourteenth Amendment Repeal the First?" Michigan Law Review 96, no. 7 (1998): 2140-145. Accessed October 23, 2020. doi:10.2307/1290063.
 * Hacker, Jonathan D. "A Response to Professor Rubenfeld." Michigan Law Review 96, no. 7 (1998): 2129-139. Accessed October 23, 2020. doi:10.2307/1290062.
 * Gordon, Sarah Barringer. "THE FIRST DISESTABLISHMENT: LIMITS ON CHURCH POWER AND PROPERTY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 162, no. 2 (2014): 307-72. Accessed October 23, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24247891.
 * Urban, Greg. "The Circulation of Secularism." International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 21, no. 1/4 (2008): 17-37. Accessed October 23, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40206155.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Idées Républicaines


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is about one of Voltaire's pamphlets that contains his thoughts on other prominent Enlightenment thinkers. It's pretty short, but is neutral for its length. It's well-cited and lacks a Talk Page, despite being part of multiple WikiProjects. I think it could use some expansion of the content of the pamphlet and discussion of its larger place in Voltaire's work and Enlightenment literature.


 * Sources
 * Wilson, Arthur M. "Unfinished Business in Enlightenment Studies." Diderot Studies 8 (1966): 319-26. Accessed October 23, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40372363.
 * Gay, Peter (1959). "Appendix II". Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
 * Davidson, Ian (2004). Voltaire in Exile. Atlantic books. pp. 186–187. ISBN 1843540878.