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Article Critique/the General Lee
I visited the General Lee (car) page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: citations, underrepresented viewpoints, and unnecessary information where more important information should be cited. The Wikipedia article on the automobile dubbed the General Lee was well written. The General Lee is a dodge charger from the show The Dukes of Hazzard. Only a small amount of grammatical errors were found and the tone was overall very professional. The content emphasis was solely on the facts without embellishing anything. All the basic information was recorded with conciseness and accuracy. For instance, the authors even went so far as to determine the amount of notes played by the cars horn. Oddly, there was one source that was not cited; it was found in the discussion pertaining to the actors having to ingress and egress the car through the car window. A highly significant detail that the author of the article downplayed is, in fact, an important modern aspect of what happened to the franchise of the “Dukes of Hazzard” show. The author of the article did not express strong opposition which stated that the confederate flag, the General Lee, was in support of slavery. However, the true meaning of the flag painted on the roof of the General Lee was intended to stand for the Southern culture. There was a lack of identifying what the car meant for the show and how it not only stood as a figure of keeping a family heritage together but also represented the history of the South. Great importance was placed on what was happening at the TV show's firm than about who drove the General Lee itself. Citations about the car and the General Lee are relatively scarce as there seems to be a much heavier amount of data about the controversy of the flag then about the cars statistics. For so few citations the author does a great job of expressing details about the car’s history. With the addition of maybe a few more quotes about the car and its association with the Duke boys the article would’ve been more complete. The drivers behind the wheel of the General Lee Bo and Luke Duke were never mentioned in the article which is a huge gap in the article.