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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
 * Mead Hall


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has appropriate sections describing different characteristics of mead halls. However, most of these sections are brief. The mythology section could be expanded upon further. Any search for information on mead halls will bring up the poem of Beowulf, a very important literary work in Anglo-Saxon history. Other than the brief introduction, there is not much information regarding the function/use of a mead hall. Considering how the article lists several examples of mead halls in fiction, it seems odd that most sections in this article are very short.


 * Sources
 * Pollington, Stephen. “The Mead-Hall Community.” Journal of Medieval History, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011, pp. 19–33., doi:10.1016/j.jmedhist.2010.12.010. https://www-sciencedirect-com.libproxy.uwyo.edu/science/article/pii/S0304418110000576

Option 2

 * Article title
 * St. Vitus Cathedral


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has a history of the St. Vitus Cathedral, as well as an overview of some of the notable features and the influence that this cathedral has. However, when looking up information on the cathedral, I noticed that there is a mosaic of the Last Judgement which is only briefly mentioned in the article. There is definitely more that could be included regarding this mosaic. Additionally, some of the potential sources I was looking through mentioned restorative work that had been done on the mosaic. This type of information could fit in with the "recent history" section of the article.


 * Sources
 * Derrick, Michele. Conservation of the Last Judgment Mosaic, St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague. Getty Conservation Institute, 2005.
 * Suchý M. (2016) St Vitus Building Accounts (1372–1378): The Economic Aspects of Building the Cathedral. In: Zaoral R. (eds) Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Villa Madama


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is fairly short considering that it is one of Raphael's villas, and it was owned by Mussolini at one point. Raphael died before the villa's completion, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger later took on the role of architect. There are a few areas that I think could be better written. In the construction section, for example, there is a sentence about construction after Raphael's death that flows in an awkward way. The article also mentions that the villa was damaged during the Sack of Rome, but was never completely rebuilt. It is phrased in a way that makes it seem like the villa was never completed at all, rather than just the restoration of it.


 * Sources
 * Yvonne Elet, "Raphael and the Roads to Rome: Designing for Diplomatic Encounters at Villa Madama," I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 19, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 143-175.

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