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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 - Leavenworth, Indiana

Article Evaluation - This article lacks enough sources to make it credible. This article is also missing a significant amount of history, especially after 1937.

Sources

McQUEEN, KEVEN. “AN ARGUMENT FOR THE INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT OF THE CRIMINALLY INSANE.” In Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass, REV-Revised, 2., 33–36. Indiana University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv21hrjgb.11.

Roberts, Warren E. “An Early Hay Press and Barn on the Ohio River.” Material Culture 25, no. 1 (1993): 29–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29763908.

Lund, Jens. “Watercraft.” In Flatheads and Spooneys: Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley, 1st ed., 33–46. University Press of Kentucky, 1995. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130jd4f.8.

Pleasant, H. H. “Crawford County.” Indiana Magazine of History 18, no. 2 (1922)

Shockley, Ernest V. “COUNTY SEATS AND COUNTY SEAT WARS IN INDIANA.” Indiana Magazine of History 10, no. 1 (1914): 1–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27785609.

Option 2 -
Article title - William S. Culbertson (Businessman)

Article Evaluation - This article is lacking any detail into this mans life, his accomplishments, or his family. There are no sources.

Sources -

Collins, Mary Scribner Davis. “New Albany, With a Short Sketch of the Scribner Family.” Indiana Magazine of History 17, no. 3 (1921): 211–42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27785995.

“Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site.” Indiana State Museum, January 19, 2024. https://www.indianamuseum.org/historic-sites/culbertson-mansion/.

Option 3
Article title - Sellerburg, Indiana

Article Evaluation - This article has almost nothing in the history section.

Sources -

Baird, Lewis C. Baird’s history of Clark County, Indiana. Jeffersonville, IN: Clark County Historical Society and Howard Steamboat Museum, 2003.

Option 4
Article title - The Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site

Article Evaluation - This history section has little before 1960, and some of the details on restoration are out of date.

Sources -

Collins, Mary Scribner Davis. “New Albany, With a Short Sketch of the Scribner Family.” Indiana Magazine of History 17, no. 3 (1921): 211–42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27785995.

Option 5
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