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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
 * Jiu Zhang


 * Article Evaluation
 * Poetry articles - High importance / Start quality
 * Completeness Score: 11; Average views per day: 2
 * The topic is very important, but this English article has little content. It is better to add the text, translation, poetry analysis, receptions, and more references.


 * Sources
 * Jiu Zhang
 * “Jiu Zhang” Chinese Wikipedia
 * http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E7%AB%A0_(%E6%A5%9A%E8%BE%9E)
 * "The Verses of Chu" in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, ed. Kang-I Sun Chang and Stephen Owen, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp.76-85.
 * "The Supernatural" in The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, ed. Victor H. Mair, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, pp.110-131.
 * "Jiu Zhang" in Chuci, ed. Jiali Lin, Zhonghua Shuju, 2009, pp. 100-160.
 * "THE SHAMAN AND THE SPIRITS: THE MEANING OF THE WORD 'LING' IN THE 'JIUGE' POEMS"
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/23659371?
 * "The Author as an Individual Writer: Sima Qian, the Presented Author"
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbkk21j.9?

comments - np
This seems to be a worthwhile topic and an excellent choice. As you note, the article is rated as highly important and it has very little content. Even a basic history is missing: there is no indication of dating, for example. I had to look elsewhere on English Wikipedia to learn the context of these poems. I did find several related articles; that too suggests that the article should be expanded. You show that there is sufficient source material for further work, and you have the knowledge and resources to do this work.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Gyokuyō Wakashū （not a poem）


 * Article Evaluation
 * Poetry articles - Mid importance / Stub quality
 * Completeness Score: 8; Average views per day: 1
 * The English version of this article has little content. Moreover, its content lacks reliable sources, and its information in the lead section is subjective. It is better to translate some information from the Japanese version and add more details and references.


 * Sources
 * Gyokuyō Wakashū
 * Japanese version of 玉葉和歌集Gyokuyō Wakashū:
 * http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%89%E8%91%89%E5%92%8C%E6%AD%8C%E9%9B%86
 * "Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shōnagon and 'The Matsushima Diary'"
 * http://www.jstor.org/stable/3096710?
 * 岩佐美代子『玉葉和歌集全注釈 別巻』笠間書院、1996年、 ISBN 4-305-30023-0

comments - np
This seems to be a good topic. The article is a stub of mid importance; it consists almost exclusively of a lead section, and only one source is cited. You show that sources are available. The template at the top suggests supplementing the article with information from the article in Japanese, which you can do.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * A Bird came down the Walk


 * Article Evaluation
 * Mid importance / Start quality
 * Completeness Score: 30; Average views per day: 37
 * First, the content in the critique part is quite confusing. For one thing, without poetry analysis, it is hard to understand the critics' conclusions. For another, if the author adds more arguments and evidence the critics hold, it will be easier to understand the findings. Second, the information in the lead section lacks references and thus seems subjective. Third, it is worth adding more analysis to the article.


 * Sources
 * A Bird came down the Walk
 * Emily Dickinson Lexicon: https://edl.byu.edu/
 * The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press)
 * Bayless, RyanS: "The Breakdown of the Pathetic Fallacy in Emily Dickinson's A BIRD, CAME DOWN THE WALK", in Explicator; 2011, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p68-71, 4p
 * Duncan, Lesley: "Poem of the Day: A Bird, Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson", in The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland). Feb 1, 2016

comments - np
Your evaluation of the article makes sense. The Critique section includes commentary by two major critics, but quotes too much rather than paraphrasing and provides no context for the discussion. You show that further sources are available. By the way – even the inclusion of these two versions of the text is questionable. The version on the left does show one of the punctuation variants discussed by Vendler; the other comes from an unreliable source and shows an unrelated punctuation variant, not discussed by Vendler.

I’m not sure this article is as urgently needed as options 1, 2, and 4, but there's no question that it should be edited and expanded, and it could be an interesting project if you want to work on Dickinson.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Nine Changes


 * Article Evaluation
 * Poetry articles - Mid importance / Start quality
 * Completeness Score: 20; Average views per day: 5
 * This poem should be important, but the English article lack content. The biggest problem of this article lacks of reliable references. This article's information has few sources, and the conclusion is very subjective, like primary sources. For instance, the authorship is questionable, but the author does not list the controversial arguments.


 * Sources
 * Nine Changes
 * "The Verses of Chu" in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, ed. Kang-I Sun Chang and Stephen Owen, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp.76-85.
 * "The Supernatural" in The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, ed. Victor H. Mair, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, pp.110-131.
 * "Jiu Bian" in Chuci, ed. Jiali Lin, Zhonghua Shuju, 2009, pp. 184-204.
 * "THE SHAMAN AND THE SPIRITS: THE MEANING OF THE WORD 'LING' IN THE 'JIUGE' POEMS"
 * http://www.jstor.org/stable/23659371?
 * "The Author as an Individual Writer: Sima Qian, the Presented Author"
 * http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbkk21j.9?

comments - np
This is a fascinating topic and another good choice. As you show, the article needs significant editing. You also show that sources are available for the project. You point out the importance of the work itself, and if the article averages 5 views per day, an expanded article could be valuable.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * The Road Not Taken


 * Article Evaluation
 * High importance / C quality
 * Completeness Score: 57; Average views per day: 986
 * This article is quite detailed, but there is still some space to improve. First of all, some information lack sources. For example, there is no reference to the second collection with this poem later published. Secondly, the meanings and metaphors of this poem deserve further discussion, while this article only discusses a little. Thirdly, the composition can add more receptions and legacy. After all, this poem is widely explored and debated by scholars.


 * Sources
 * The Road Not Taken
 * "Frost's Reading of 'The Road Not Taken'"
 * http://www.jstor.org/stable/24727344?
 * "A Poet's Quarrel: Jamesian Pragmatism and Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'"
 * http://www.jstor.org/stable/1559684?
 * "Frost's 'The Road Not Taken': A 1925 Letter Come to Light"
 * http://www.jstor.org/stable/2925142?
 * "The Daily Living of Robert Frost"
 * http://www.jstor.org/stable/25501879?

comments - np
As you show, and as we discussed during office hours, this article needs work. But editing it might be a considerable undertaking. “The Road Not Taken” is a significant poem, and there are many critical discussions of it: sorting these out and organizing them could take a lot of time. The article notes that the poem is “frequently misunderstood,” but even that point should be examined in more detail. (For example – why is the poem frequently misunderstood?)  Of course, any improvement to the article would be worthwhile, but you could probably make a bigger contribution if you worked on a less developed article about a less studied topic (any of the first four options).