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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.

Scorched earth

Chemical weapons in World War I

War and environmental law

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Scorched Earth


 * Article Evaluation
 * Rated as C-Class
 * Restructure sentences
 * Add more pictures or re-organize pictures so they are visually more appealing
 * Some of the descriptions of the pictures did not give enough detail/were limited
 * Consider restructuring the format of the article - currently historical overview and allows the reader to conduct their own analysis
 * Go beyond just talking about scorched earth tactics and explain the effects (health, social, political) - lacking the consequences of scorched earth tactics
 * Removing redundant claims or statements
 * For example, "The concept of scorched-earth defense is sometimes applied figuratively to the business world in which a firm facing a takeover attempts to make itself less valuable by selling off its assets" seems unnecessary
 * Sources
 * Scorched Earth. (2019). Nature Plants, 5(10), 1025–1025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0540-7
 * Eddlem. (2014). America’s Civil War and the advent of total war: in modernity, scorched-earth total-war tactics--punishing and killing soldiers and civilians alike--began with the French, in the French Revolution, and continued in America.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE). The New American (Belmont, Mass.), 30(20), 34–.
 * Leebaw. (2014). Scorched Earth: Environmental War Crimes and International Justice. Perspectives on Politics, 12(4), 770–788. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714002126
 * Leebaw. (2014). Scorched Earth: Environmental War Crimes and International Justice. Perspectives on Politics, 12(4), 770–788. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714002126
 * Leebaw. (2014). Scorched Earth: Environmental War Crimes and International Justice. Perspectives on Politics, 12(4), 770–788. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714002126

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Chemical weapons in World War 1


 * Article Evaluation
 * Rated as C-Class
 * well-written and organized
 * each section was related to the topic and gave further insight into the history and use of chemical weapons
 * each section was concise and used terminology that could be easily understood
 * few to no grammatical/spelling errors
 * neutral and did not demonstrate a biased perspective
 * used multiple pictures laid out to be aesthetically pleasing
 * pictures were correctly sources and descriptions of pictures were detailed
 * More in-text references
 * more in-text references could be added to support claims
 * for example, claims about the number of casualties/deaths
 * Sources
 * Kolodkin, & Ruck, W. (2006). Ecological risks associated with the destruction of chemical weapons.
 * Kaffka. (1996). Sea-dumped chemical weapons : aspects, problems, and solutions (Kaffka, Ed.; 1st ed. 1996.). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8713-6
 * Kaffka. (1996). Sea-dumped chemical weapons : aspects, problems, and solutions (Kaffka, Ed.; 1st ed. 1996.). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8713-6
 * Kaffka. (1996). Sea-dumped chemical weapons : aspects, problems, and solutions (Kaffka, Ed.; 1st ed. 1996.). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8713-6

Option 3

 * Article title
 * War and environmental law


 * Article Evaluation
 * Rates as Start-Class
 * the article was not visually appealing
 * lacked media, images or graphs
 * citations are not verified and limited
 * only four references, some of which are out of date
 * terminology used may not be understandable to all readers
 * uses legal terms and directly paraphrases from legal documents
 * contains lengthy quotations
 * Sources
 * Lifset. (2018). Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City by William W. Buzbee (review). New York History, 99(1), 130–132. https://doi.org/10.1353/nyh.2018.002
 * Russell. (2005). NICKING THE THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE: WHAT HISTORY SUGGESTS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW OF WAR. Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 24(3), 377–388.
 * Aamina Islam. (2014). Laws of War and Environment. Environmental Policy and Law, 44(4), 364–
 * Russell. (2005). NICKING THE THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE: WHAT HISTORY SUGGESTS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW OF WAR. Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 24(3), 377–388.
 * Aamina Islam. (2014). Laws of War and Environment. Environmental Policy and Law, 44(4), 364–
 * Aamina Islam. (2014). Laws of War and Environment. Environmental Policy and Law, 44(4), 364–