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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
 * Gennett Records
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article could benefit from expansion on the KKK records Gennett pressed. The article also does not discuss how the label was one of the earlier companies to allow records of interracial groups.
 * Sources:Blackwood, Scott. The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story 1917-1932. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.:Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots. Bloomington: Indianapolis University Press, 2013. :Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond Indiana. Madison, WI: Western Historical Association, 1912. ::

Option 2
Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond Indiana. Madison, WI: Western Historical Association,  1912.
 * Article title:Starr Piano Company
 * Article Evaluation:Information on piano manufacturing needs to be expanded so it matches the coverage (or surpasses) the coverage on phonographs. Lead in needs to be expanded. Many links are broken.
 * Sources:Greenfield, Jack. A History of Midwestern Piano Manufacturing. Kansas City: Piano Technicians Foundation, 1996:Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots. Bloomington: Indianapolis University Press, 2013.

Misc. piano catalogs (I have photos of some and others are online via the Indiana State Library or IHS.)

Option 3

 * Article title:Starr Piano Company Warehouse and Administration Building
 * Article Evaluation:This article is only a stub and could use more substance. While this is the only building standing today, the article could benefit by covering the Starr Piano campus as it once was and could also discuss ongoing efforts in the 21st century to revitalize the area.
 * Sources:The Starr Piano Company. A View Book of the Plant and Grounds of the Starr Piano Company. Richmond, Indiana, [192x]:Pictorial History of the City of Richmond Indiana 1806=1906. Richmond, IN: Nicholson Printing & Mfg. Company, [1906]. :Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots. Bloomington: Indianapolis University Press, 2013.

Option 4

 * Article title:George Trayser
 * Article Evaluation:George Trayser was the first piano manufacturer in Richmond, IN whose factory would eventually become the Starr Piano Co. This article could use some cleaning up - some of the information is relevant to a sibling or child of George Trayser and should be more clearly stated. There is also a lot of genealogical information missing clear citations.
 * Sources:Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots. Bloomington: Indianapolis University Press, 2013.

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