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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: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Article Evaluation:

The article itself is very well put together. That said, a majority of the sources used for the article seem to come from the museum's website, an online article, or travel advisories. Adding more sources that have been peer-reviewed would add more credibility to the article. The article is also not very balanced. It focuses on the zoo and garden aspect more than the natural history aspect of it.

Sources

Colodner, Debra, Kim Franklin, Craig Ivanyi, John F. Wiens, and Stéphane Poulin. 2022. Why Partner with a Zoo or Garden? Selected Lessons from Seventy Years of Regional Conservation Partnerships at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens 3(4): 725–737

Luke, Timothy W. 1997. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Organization & Environment 10(2): 148–163

Ratkevich, Ron. 1995. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Rocks & Minerals 70(1): 26–29

Option 2

Article title: Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Article Evaluation

Sources

Bill, Meghan. 2021. Tracing Threads of History: Rediscovering Indonesian Textiles at the Brooklyn Museum. Museum Anthropology 44(1-2): 38–54

Kisin, Eugenia. 2022. Climate in Crisis: ''Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas. Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.'' Brooklyn, February 14, 2020–June 20, 2021. Museum Anthropology 45(2): 195–197

Option 3

Article title: Collections management

Collections management

Article Evaluation

The overall article is good and long. It is a good start. Organization could be better though. It is overall not well balanced, going more into the collection management policies over the systems. The amount of sources are good. Pictures are also good

Sources

Buck, Rebecca A., and Jean Allman Gilmore. 2001. The New Museum Registration Methods. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums

Miller, Steven. 2018. Collection Management. Essay. In The Anatomy of a Museum: An Insider's Text Pp. 131–138. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell

Zoller, Gabriela, and Katie DeMarsh. 2013. For the Record. Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 32(1): 54–70.

Option 4

Article title: Jade Burial Suit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_burial_suit

Article Evaluation

The overall article is very short. It seems very unbalanced, most of the article is taken up descriptions of the material of the suit and not the cultural history of it. There are very few sources used in the article, 5 in total. Most of the sources are not translated and one of the links of a sources takes the reader to another wiki page, not the source. It is hard to know if the articles are peer reviewed.

Sources

Erickson, Susan. 2012. Ways of Facing the Dead in Ancient China. Arts Asiatiques 67(1): 19–34.

Khao, Jeffery, and Yang Zousheng. 1983. On Jade Suits and Han Archaeology. Archaeology 36(6): 30–37

Pearlstein, Elinor L. 1990. A Jade Sheath of Early Imperial China. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 16(2): 102

Xu, Jay, Zebin Li, and Yinde Li. 2017. Tomb Treasures: New Discoveries from China's Han Dynasty. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum

Option 5

Article title: Picture Stones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_stone

Article Evaluation

The overall article is good but short. It has good information and is organized well. The sources are lacking in the article. 6 sources total is not good. Many of the sources seem like magazine articles or from museums.

Sources

Andrén Anders. 2014. Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree, Middle Earth, and the Sun from Archaeological Perspectives. Lund: Nordic Academic Press

Olsson, Stefan. 2019. The Hostages of the Northmen. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press

Williams, Howard. 2016. Gotland's Picture Stones. Bearers of an Enigmatic Legacy. Edited by Maria Herlinkarnell. Gotland Museum. 2012. 215 Pp. SEK 290. ISBN 9789188036865. Early Medieval Europe 24(4): 512–515