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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:George of Antioch
 * Article Evaluation:The article completely lacks references after the lead section, leaving one wondering where this information came from. There are also some links to associated pages that could be put in to stimulate interest in related subjects (ex: Christodulus). Two of the used and cited sources are from the same author and are fairly outdated, and could use some updating. Media (images specifically) used in the article detail accomplishments of the subject but the article itself fails to even mention these. Overall, the article provides a rough and unpolished description of George of Antioch's life, which is somewhat understandable given his relative obscurity, but I believe there is room for the article to be improved in several ways.
 * Sources:Carbonaro, Francesco. The Norman Admiralty: History of an Office Between Two Worlds. Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2021.:Fein, Ariel. "Emiral Patronage: George of Antioch, the Martorana, and the Arab-Christians of Norman Sicily." PhD diss., Yale University, 2021.

Option 2

 * Article title:Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards
 * Article Evaluation:This article does a great job of summarizing the subject text, but utterly lacks context. I think that a great way to transform this article would be to provide examples and potential causes (some are actually even listed or referenced by the subject itself) for the grievances listed in the Twelve Conclusions.
 * Sources:Brown, Andrew. Church and society in England 1000-1500. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.:Thomas, Hugh M. The secular clergy in England, 1066-1216. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Option 3
[https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/37580252/Final_Draft-libre.pdf?1431094302=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Multi_Cultural_Identity_of_Medieval.pdf&Expires=1707025611&Signature=RlWJ~2ifNNKueQKh5ZP30oB2S4Rx94lj8zlxPsam~B4DdAiZW5fv6aBkIG-u1kKY1mxDsSDiV3y6kAApADUJr70KUl26ezpb4dUIW-gzLF32mMs9sqHDb30vX6XipFoJf2Q4lgUiB4ZTMPkGhShN5eiP~nQaxaWnk2dO2wjTm-N6-y4cAMCsACZ06G-RN8DUi81mxmaAVvH7TkjbEL0abS5io~DrnGS9f~PY~s2uApzHTSBsn2~tdyIhRLnSuHMvyOzRoeFgR~k-vCwdEjEg4ex8Jo6DVkKsoZXc749rJu845RXbeyTxvLvv4HG5OD8Co7rMLC5F9NLZ1wPP~MspzQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA Henry, Lindsey K., and Robin O’Bryan. "The Multi-Cultural Identity of Medieval Sicily: William II’s Complex at Monreale." (2015).]
 * Article title:William II of Sicily
 * Article Evaluation:Despite citing that this Norman King of Sicily had a 20-year-long reign, the amount of content in the article is surprisingly scant. Quite a few claims and sections are missing citations entirely, leaving doubt to their veracity. This article does a good job of establishing a baseline, but for a King who ruled for 20 years (and this is no mean feat), there should be much more information to go around. One thing in specific that I see very little mention of in this article is the Arab-Norman (and to an extent, Greek) syncretism that occurred in Norman Sicily during William II's reign. Other articles have listed him as a patron of Arab art and this article specifically mentions Arabic writing on his coinage, so I feel that this would be an interesting avenue to explore.
 * Sources

[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5I11Ey3CO4MC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=william+ii+of+sicily&ots=uN9NOmb5oa&sig=k1tF8UTO2-Ptu-lqU_zwSgHeZj8#v=onepage&q=william%20ii%20of%20sicily&f=false Mallette, Karla. The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.]