User:Keithsea/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
Metacomet
 * Article title:
 * Article Evaluation:
 * The Lead only really summarizes the beginning of his life and doesn't mention the King Philip's War. The thing he is known for.
 * Throughout the article there is a need for citations.
 * The article is short and doesn't contain that much information.
 * A couple of the source's links don't work.
 * There could a section for his actions during the build up to war.
 * There is a post on the talk page about mentioning that it is unknown what he looked like and that has not been done.
 * The image shown does not credit its creator or when it was created.
 * There isn't much about his actions during the war.
 * The article is quite incomplete and there isn't much there. There is more about Metacomet on the King Philip's War article than there is on his own.


 * Sources:Metacom (or Metacomet; King Philip) (c. 1639–76). (2001). In The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast (pp. 135–135).:John Easton, “A Relation of the Indian War” in A Narrative of the Causes Which Led to Philip’s Indian War (Albany: J. Munsell, 1858), 5–15.:Abbott, J. S. C., & Morris, J. E. (2001). History of King Philip, Sovereign Chief of the Wampanogs. Digital Scanning, Incorporated.

Option 2
Assembly of Notables
 * Article title:
 * Article Evaluation
 * In the lead instead of just listing the dates in which they met they each could be summarized with a sentence.
 * Each section in this article has to do with each of the times the assembly met. Which makes each one feel like a lead for their own independent article, but there is none for any of them.
 * The previous issue comes a big issue when talking about the 1787 meeting. As this is the meeting which was a step on the path to the French Revolution. But despite it being the largest section of the article it still misses out on many parts of the meeting and its place within the French Revolution as a whole.
 * There is only two pictures in the article, there could be more but also I think that the pictures should line up with the place in the article where their section is. The 1787 meeting's picture is at the top of the article while its section is at the bottom.
 * There are only two posts in the talk page and the last edit was it 2012
 * This article which to me is on a major part of the beginning of the French Revolution is quite incomplete and seems to have been abandoned.


 * Sources

Hardman, J. (2010). Overture to revolution : the 1787 Assembly of Notables and the crisis of France’s old regime. Oxford University Press.

GREENGRASS, M. (2007). The Assembly of Notables, 1583–1584. In Governing Passions. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199214907.003.09

Doyle, W. (2001). The French Revolution. Oxford University Press.

Option 3
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
 * Article title:
 * Article Evaluation
 * With the current amount of information within the article the lead section does a good job of concisely summarizing the article.
 * There is little information about him during the Reign of Terror including how he was in the Committee of Public Safety for 6 months.
 * The article at certain points just states facts with little explanation or context, for example in the "Napoleonic era and final years" section it talks about a few things he did without explaining much of anything.
 * The Directory section of the article seems to be out of place. Before it there is a section that combines Sieyès actions with the "Assemblies, Convention, and the Terror" into one section, and then his actions in Napoleons coup into another. Leaving the Directory section by itself. Either I think that section could either be expanded with more information. Or split up into one part going into the "Assemblies, Convention, and the Terror" with that part focusing on his entrance into the Directory. Then the other part about his plotting into the section about Napoleon coup.
 * The section "Contribution to social sciences" doesn't explain the role "Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France," or really what Sieyès did within the body.
 * I think overall this article so far is decently done. The information gives a nice overview of Sieyès but I think could do with a little more about him and maybe a little bit more for the context of the period. So I think the article has a nice basis so far but just needs some expansion.


 * Sources:Oelsner, K. E. (1795). An account of the life of Sieyes, member of the first National Assembly, and of the Convention. Written at Paris, in Messidor, the second year of the Republican Æra, June and July, 1794. Translated from the French. Published in Switzerland, 1795. printed for J. Johnson, 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard.:   Van Deusen, G. G. (Glyndon G. (1970). Sieyes: his life and his nationalism. AMS Press. Keithsea (talk) 01:49, 29 October 2023 (UTC)