User:Dana Hoover/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: Shajar al-Durr (Specifically the section titled Architecture)
 * Article Evaluation: This article is part of several Wikipedia (Egypt, Biography/Royalty and Nobility, Middle Ages/Crusades, Women's history, and Wiki Loves Women) all of which receive a B class rating excluding Middle Ages/Crusades. I personally believe that this article undermines the importance of Shajar al-Durr and there seems to be moderate agreement on this feature in the talk page which also seems to mostly inactive recently. The part of this article that I would be working on would be the architecture section which features large block quotes which certainly add to the article but I believe could be enhanced with additional commentary. Due to my novice status with Wikipedia I am unsure how these quotes stand in regards to what Wikipedia regards as what constitutes to a good article. Further, the architecture section seems to only focus on on presently standing building but she had other works built that may add complexity and depth to this section. This article is important in that it highlights a woman from a time of history that is typically glossed over without regard to important and powerful women actors.
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 * Article title: Architecture of Cuba
 * Article Evaluation: C-class rated article. A relatively short article especially considering that its contents consider a whole country that seems to be heavy on examples from almost exclusively Havana, the Cuban capital. Given that the focus here broadly present a whole country I believe more could be added especially in light of this country oppression through sanctions imposed by the US that in some ways have preserved unique older building that may have otherwise been destroyed to make way for new renovation yet was impossible. Almost architecture that has been frozen in time. The work presented seems fairly good but I think this article could be enriched with more examples outside of Havana. I have personally visited twice and would love to learn more through this project.
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 * Article title: Sainte Marie de La Tourette
 * Article Evaluation: Rated as a start-class project and in regards to architecture of high-importance. Of the articles I have here, in my opinion by far the most interesting with the most room for improvement and a high variety of sources and in large number too.  In relation to our class this building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which fits neatly along with the other buildings we have been looking at in class. It would seem to me that for a building designated a World Heritage Site the article is rather small in relation to its alleged high importance. The other sixteen works of Le Corbusier also received UNESCO designations which would seem in indicated that this particular building has much more to it than what the small article currently presents. Given the importance of Le Corbusier there are extensive sources that would contribute to this article. I believe drawing on some of his personal aspects such as being an atheist and including them in relation to his architectural work could deeply enrich this article. Currently this article present Exterior, Interior, Patio, Materials, and The Use of Light, each discussed only in short seeming to neglect other aspects and their religious importance.
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