User:Basic.987/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

 * Article title
 * Coroplast


 * Article Evaluation
 * I would hope that this topic would be relevant to Dura-Europos a Hellenistic site with terracotta figurines. As it stands now, the article is a stub. Although it does not have potential to be a huge article, it is basically a definition of coroplast right now, including none of the context or findings that the article currently alludes to. There is not really room for bias right now, The citations are reliable and definitely have information to expand the page.


 * Sources
 * https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/146725.pdf
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/4301471
 * http://coroplasticstudies.univ-lille3.fr/

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Foundation Deposit


 * Article Evaluation
 * Foundation deposits are something definitely relevant in the case of Dura, but again the article only contains a simple definition of a foundation deposit and a short blurb about what kinds of things are often found as foundation deposits in ancient Egypt sites. The two working sources are fine and reliable, but one of them does not link to anything.


 * Sources
 * https://archive.org/details/fromswordtoploug00gerr
 * ^ "Foundation deposit (Glossary entry)". Theban Mapping Project. Retrieved 2007-06-17.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Caravan City


 * Article Evaluation
 * Relevant as Dura is considered to be somewhat of a caravan city, and is briefly mentioned in the article. However, it's name is just dropped, and provides no further context for the history of development of caravan cities. There are a good number of sources, but not a lot of information from them seems to be being used.


 * Sources
 * ^ "Late Antinquity" by Richard Lim in The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 115.
 * ^ Rostovtzeff, M. (1932) Caravan Cities. Translated by D. & T. Talbot Rice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932, p. v.
 * ^ Palmyra as a Caravan City Albert E. Dien, Walter Chapin Simpson Centre for the Humanities, Washington University, 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013. Archived here.
 * ^ Pierre Leriche, D. N. MacKenzie, "Dura Europos", Encyclopaedia Iranica, December 15, 1996, last updated December 2, 2011.
 * ^ Anatomy of a Caravan City: Aroer on the South Arabian Trade Route by Yifat Thareani-Sussely. Israel Antiquities Authority, 2013.
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