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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
 * Lewis Carroll


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is rated C-Class. The article sections have very different weights. For example, there is a lot dedicated to his Early Life but as you scroll down the article, sections get more and more sparse. Also, I think more content is needed in his less popular works such as Sylvie and Bruno or The Hunting of the Snark. Images could also be livened up a little bit by including more modern images instead of black & white illustrations or photography. On the bright side, the article utilizes a lot of relevant and reliable sources. I also enjoyed seeing an image from his diary.

Jussawalla, Feroza. "The Red King's Dream, Or Lewis Carroll in Wonderland/The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books/Lewis Carroll and Alice: New Horizons." The Lion and the Unicorn 24, no. 1 (01, 2000): 157-161. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/red-kings-dream-lewis-carroll-wonderland-alice/docview/743830738/se-2?accountid=11091.
 * Sources

Mallardi, Rosella. “The Photographic Eye and the Vision of Childhood in Lewis Carroll.” Studies in Philology 107, no. 4 (2010): 548–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41059235.

Pitcher, George. “Wittgenstein, Nonsense, and Lewis Carroll.” The Massachusetts Review 6, no. 3 (1965): 591–611. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25087331.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Paddington Bear


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is rated C-Class. Overall, I thought this was a good article because the authors incorporated Paddington's history and adaptations. However, I felt that more information could be given on the origins of Paddington as most of the article dealt with Paddington adaptations. Also, although the article uses many sources, I think there needs to include a greater amount of scholarly articles as most of them come from websites. Finally, I would include more pictures depicting Paddington caricatures in movies instead of only statues commemorating Paddington.


 * Sources
 * Smith, Philip. “Paddington Bear and the Erasure of Difference.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 45, no. 1 (2020): 25–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2020.0002.
 * Smith, Angela. “Paddington Bear: A Case Study of Immigration and Otherness.” Children’s Literature in Education 37, no. 1 (2006): 35–50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-005-9453-3.
 * Grayson, Kyle. "How to Read Paddington Bear: Liberalism and the Foreign Subject in A Bear Called Paddington." British Journal of Politics & International Relations 15, no. 3 (08, 2013): 378-393. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00506.x . https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/how-read-paddington-bear-liberalism-foreign/docview/1372570080/se-2?accountid=11091.

Andari, I came across this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/01/23/is-the-real-paddington-bear-too-english-for-americans/

Option 3

 * Article title
 * And Tango Makes Three


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is rated Start and C-Class. I think the Lead Section could be worked on to provide a summary of what the article will entail. Additionally, I think the Summary section is redundant given that the plot-line was already concisely summarized in the Lead. Further, I think the Genre section could also be deleted and either added in the Lead section. But, an editor made a comment regarding the controversy surrounding the genre, so if that was the intention of having the section then I would suggest expanding on the controversy. However, the article doesn't have many grammatical errors and editors cite from reliable sources such as the American Library Association.


 * Sources
 * Scales, Pat. Books Under Fire : a Hit List of Banned and Challenged Children’s Books. Chicago: ALA Editions, An imprint of the American Library Association, 2015.
 * Jennifer Harvey. “And Tango Makes Three: Introducing Family Diversity to Children.” Children & Libraries 11, no. 3 (2013): 27–.
 * Robles Lugo, Jo A. “‘And Tango Makes Three’ and ‘tyyl’: A Study of Censorship and Banned Books in Twenty-First Century America.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2012.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Little Red Riding Hood


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is rated C-Class. The Lead section can be improved by concisely introducing what will be discussed in the article and the significance of the story. Another critic I have for the article is the summary box and images. The summary box should include the authors and provide a specific publishing date while the images could be improved by incorporating more from adaptations of the story--such as musicals or film. But, I thought the sources are well done and the sections are extensively researched. I also enjoyed the section on interpretation as I thought that encouraged me to think about how others viewed the book and understood it through different lenses.


 * Sources
 * Baker-Sperry, Lori, and Liz Grauerholz. “The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children’s Fairy Tales.” Gender and Society 17, no. 5 (2003): 711–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3594706.
 * Makinen, Merja. “Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality.” Feminist Review, no. 42 (1992): 2–15. https://doi.org/10.2307/1395125.
 * Debra Mitts-Smith. “The Wolf: Danger and Deception in Three Tales.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 68, no. 3 (2007): 941–59. https://doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.68.3.0941.

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