User:Sean A James/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

 * Article title
 * October Revolution


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article has some useful information, but is poorly written and contains some strange subheadings like "German support" and "Dybenko's disputed role." A sub-section on "Later Soviet Portrayal" appears in the "Revolution" section even though there is a "Historiography" section and a "Soviet historiography" subsection. A graphic on the Constituent Assembly appears in a section on "Anti-Bolshevik sentiment" - something that belongs in a different article. There is a section on the Russian Civil War, even though this does have its own article.


 * Sources
 * Some sources are reliable, like S. A. Smith, Rabinowitch, but some non-scholarly sources and some heavily biased sources like Pipes and Service. Primary sources are useful

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Peng Shuzhi


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is start class, with a very brief summary. Somewhat more has been done in Chinese.


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 * There are only one or two scholars who have studied this figure, whose had been more important than Mao Zedong. This reduces its viability, but I am quite familiar with the history in which he was involved and am able to improve this article.

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