User:CaseyChoCSULB/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
 * Milwaukee Police Department bombing, Bay View incident


 * Article Evaluation
 * The articles contain a considerable overlap of information and the article about the Bay View Incident contains details about the MPD bombing and aftermath not contained in the main article. Furthermore, more information can be attitude about public reaction to such a large scale act of terrorism.


 * Sources
 * Avrich, Paul (1996). Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background. Princeton University Press.

Option 2

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 * 1848 United States presidential election


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is generally quite informative but may benefit from some improvements. For example, the introductory section contains a good deal of information that can be placed in the main body of the article instead. Additionally a discussion of the election results could benefit from more details on ethnic and denominational patterns of voting, including those of eligible black voters in some Northern states.


 * Sources
 * Earle, Jonathan H. Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1828–1854 (2004).
 * Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Culture (1979).

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Kim Du-han


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is extremely brief even though Kim played a major role in the political history of the Republic of Korea from the Forties through Sixties and has attained considerable notoriety in popular culture thanks to a well-known historical TV drama series based on his life. The Korean version of the Wikipedia article contains far more biographical information.


 * Sources
 * Kang Jun-man. Walk Through Modern Korean History: The 1960s (2004). (Korean)
 * Kim Du-han. Autobiography of Kim Du-han (2003). (Korean)

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