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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

= Results of the War of 1812 =
 * Article Evaluation:Faily short, while covering the most notable results of the war, there is little detail, also the section on native Americans is rather short despite being a major part of the results.
 * Sources:Allen, Robert S. “His Majesty’s Indian Allies: Native Peoples, The British Crown and the War     of 1812” Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 14. No. 2. Fall 1988.
 * Sources:Allen, Robert S. “His Majesty’s Indian Allies: Native Peoples, The British Crown and the War     of 1812” Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 14. No. 2. Fall 1988.

Option 2

 * Article title:Origins of the War of 1812
 * Article Evaluation:Crucial trade related causes are neglected, also a lack of links relating to Jefferson's critical embargoes and the orders in Council.
 * Sources:Gilje, Paul A. “Free Trade and Sailors Rights: The Rhetoric of the War of 1812” Journal of the          Early Republic Vol. 30 No. 1, Spring 2010.

Option 3

 * Article title:History of the United States Government
 * Article Evaluation:Long but rated a C by Wikipedia, likely due to multiple missing citations especially in Andrew Jackson Era
 * Sources:Polus, Harold J. Jackson, Banks Wars and Liberalism

Option 4

 * Article title:Constantias Gallus
 * Article Evaluation:Short, Underdeveloped, few citations yet most are from same late Roman historian
 * Sources:Constantius Gallus and Julian as Creasers of Constantius II, R. C. Blockley

Option 5

 * Article title:History of the Firearm
 * Article Evaluation:Very short and lacking despite being an important topic
 * Sources:On the Invention and Use of Gunpowder and Firearms in China, Wang Ling