User:Goatmanatee/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:
 * Manilla Galleon
 * Article Evaluation:
 * The article could be reorganized. The section titled "Spice Trade" discusses a trade route oriented around silver, not spice, and cover more than trade, such as the construction of ships. It could possibly be combined with the previous section in a larger section titled "History," broken down into subsections.
 * The article could also do more to emphasize the economy that sprang up to supply the voyage, such as mule trains, agriculture, inn keepers, and dock workers.
 * The article was neutrally written, but places more emphasis on the discovery of the route than the route itself.
 * Sources:
 * Seijas, Tatiana, "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"
 * Burkholder, Mark, Colonial Latin America
 * Seijas, Tatiana, "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"
 * Burkholder, Mark, Colonial Latin America

Option 2

 * Article title:
 * Spanish Treasure Fleet
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Changes that occurred to the fleet system, such as the Bourbon Reforms, the economic concessions of the Treaty of Utrecht, the use of registered ships, and the introduction of monopolistic trading companies, could be mentioned. The process of bringing goods overland by mule train could also be slightly expanded on.
 * The article is neutrally written.
 * Sources:
 * Moutoukias, Zacarias. "Power, Corruption, and Commerce: The Making of the Local Administrative Structure in Seventeenth-Century Buenos Aires"
 * Burkholder, Mark. Colonial Latin America
 * Seijas, Tatiana. "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"
 * Burkholder, Mark. Colonial Latin America
 * Seijas, Tatiana. "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"

Option 3

 * Article title:
 * Acapulco
 * Article Evaluation:
 * The role of supplying the Manilla Galleons and the associated seasonal labor could be emphasized.
 * The article repeatedly emphasizes crime in the city in recent years, but is otherwise neutrally written.
 * Sources:
 * Seijas, Tatiana. "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"
 * Sources:
 * Seijas, Tatiana. "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"

Option 4

 * Article title:
 * Real Situado
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Article is only an extremely brief, slightly inaccurate overview. The purpose and economic role of the situado could be greatly expanded on.
 * The Spanish version of the article is much more extensive and could use a fluent translator to transfer information to the English version.
 * Sources:
 * Moutoukias, Zacarias. "Power, Corruption, and Commerce: The Making of the Local Administrative Structure in Seventeenth-Century Buenos Aires"
 * Sources:
 * Moutoukias, Zacarias. "Power, Corruption, and Commerce: The Making of the Local Administrative Structure in Seventeenth-Century Buenos Aires"

Option 5

 * Article title:
 * Timeline of International Trade
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Article does not mention Spanish silver trade to China or smuggling to Spanish America.
 * The article as a whole seems extremely ambitious in scope. It mentions more modern instances of trade and regulation compared to pre-modern, and discusses European based trade routes more than non-Western.
 * Sources:
 * Moutoukias, Zacarias. "Power, Corruption, and Commerce: The Making of the Local Administrative Structure in Seventeenth-Century Buenos Aires"
 * Seijas, Tatiana. "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"
 * Burkholder, Mark. Colonial Latin America
 * Seijas, Tatiana. "Inns, Mules, and Hardtack for the Voyage: the Local Economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico"
 * Burkholder, Mark. Colonial Latin America