User:Babybear444/Choose an Article

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

 * A Noiseless Patient Spider
 * The article is not well organized and does not contain objective information. The majority of the text is dedicated to analyzing the imagery of the poem, which is original research and thus does not meet wikipedia standards. The text of the poem is not included in the article, either.
 * I have planned to set aside library time to look for sources. Considering this is a poem by Walt Whitman, a very famous poet, I believe I will be able to find relevant information.
 * I have planned to set aside library time to look for sources. Considering this is a poem by Walt Whitman, a very famous poet, I believe I will be able to find relevant information.
 * I have planned to set aside library time to look for sources. Considering this is a poem by Walt Whitman, a very famous poet, I believe I will be able to find relevant information.

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As you note, the article on “A Noiseless Patient Spider” is for the most part original research. The lead is the exception. The Talk page provides some background for the article in its current state and further support for your evaluation. The template at the top of the article requests that the article be revised to eliminate original research. I agree that you will be able to find reliable sources for this topic. It’s surprising that no one has undertaken this article, all the more since the most recent critique, on the Talk page, dates to 2014.

Option 2

 * Love After Love (poem)
 * This is a stub article, with only a one sentence introduction.
 * I am less confident about finding sources for this one, but I will keep it in mind when I am looking through the stacks
 * I am less confident about finding sources for this one, but I will keep it in mind when I am looking through the stacks
 * I am less confident about finding sources for this one, but I will keep it in mind when I am looking through the stacks

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I too am less convinced about “Love after Love” as a topic. While Derek Walcott is an important poet, I’m not sure this poem is notable enough for its own article. But further research could prove otherwise. If “Love after Love” is exemplary in some way, if it is a significant poem for Walcott, you might be able to justify choosing it.

Option 3

 * A Divine Image
 * While the text of the poem is included, beginning with a brief introduction, there is no body or extended information about the poem.
 * This is a William Blake poem. Because of the notoriety of the author, I am more confident about finding sources.
 * This is a William Blake poem. Because of the notoriety of the author, I am more confident about finding sources.
 * This is a William Blake poem. Because of the notoriety of the author, I am more confident about finding sources.

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“A Divine Image” is a puzzling article. If you look at the article history, it apparently began with just the text of the poem and the text of Blake’s poem “The Divine Image” from Songs of Innocence. I haven’t explored the entire history, but I wonder how the article evolved to distinguish the two poems and then settled into the current stub. You probably would be able to find sources for an expansion of this article, as you suggest, because Blake is the author. You would also be participating not just in the Poetry project but also in the work of the William Blake Task Force (see the Talk page). But you would need to judge how far it would be possible to go with this topic and how worthwhile the material might be.

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