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Peer Review:

It looks as though you have a good start on researching your topic and finding holes within the established article. I like how you have already been thorough in your research in regards to deciphering the "Talk Page" and using that information to make improvements. My suggestions is to ensure when drafting your final article to consistently refer to the wiki article guidelines to ensure you are meeting all formatting requirements. Another suggestion is to focus your article with an objective to provide readers with the relevance of Medard des Grosseilliers in regards to Canada. I like how you are focussing on improving the wording and language used however feel also digging into more specifics would be beneficial.

Article Evaluation
Article: Médard des Grosseilliers

Upon first look, this article seems like it is loaded with a lot of good, relevant information. While examining more closely, however, much of the information in the article seems fairly irrelevant, such as some of the very specific information about Chouart’s early life. One thing that is distracting throughout the article is some of the awkward wording used; in parts of the article, it seems as if the author may have been trying to re-word information from a different source. The information from the article seems to be cited properly, yet it is obvious when looking at the References list that a large portion of the information in the article came from one single source.

This article is rated B-class and is of interest to WikiProject Biography, WikiProject France, WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America/Anishinaabe and WikiProject Canada.

In the Talk page of this article, there is a discussion involving the language of the article, specifically the use of the word “defected”. A user essentially pointed out that the use of this word was derogatory and used incorrectly. There were two responses to this: one being a user giving a definition of the word “Defect” and the other from an author of the article stating what he initially meant.

Draft: Red Fife wheat

Current Lead Section: Red Fife is a wheat variety that was the baking and milling industries standard of wheat in Canada from 1860 to 1900. Sent to Peterborough, Ontario farmer Fife in 1840, it took its name from the seed color and Fife's name. Seed was to have been obtained from a ship sitting in Glasgow port. Red Fife is one of many heritage varieties being grown globally by people interested in variety identified food products.

Edited:Red Fife is a wheat variety that was the baking and milling industries standard of wheat in Canada from 1860 to 1900. Sent to Peterborough, Ontario farmer David Fife in 1840, it took its name from the seed colour and Fife's name. The grain originally came from Danzig, Hungary (Short history of Red Fife Wheat, Accession Number 86-1067, Lang Mill Manual; Otonabee Region Conservation Authority / Shelagh Grant. -- Photocopied [between 1979 and 1989], Trent University Archives, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.) and was sent to Fife from Glasgow, Scotland ( Cole, Jean Murray. David Fife and Red Fife Wheat: the story of a few grains of wheat that were saved from a cow. Peterborough: Lang Pioneer Village, 1992, Page 3). Red Fife is one of many heritage varieties being grown globally by people interested in variety identified food products.

New Section: David Fife

David Fife immigrated to Canada with his family in 1820 when he was 15 years old (Cole, Jean Murray. David Fife and Red Fife Wheat: the story of a few grains of wheat that were saved from a cow. Peterborough: Lang Pioneer Village, 1992, page 3). Fife and his family immigrated to Canada at this time in order to take advantage of the offer of free land to settlers during this time (Cole, Jean Murray. David Fife and Red Fife Wheat: the story of a few grains of wheat that were saved from a cow. Peterborough: Lang Pioneer Village, 1992, page 16). David Fife began farming his own land in 1842 where he farmer wheat, oats, peas, potatoes and hay (3).