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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
 * Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's leader seems to lack focus. While it does sum up many of the great deeds of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, It's flow and composition are not reflected in the rest of the article.There is a section on his activities on behalf of his jewish community, but there is no mention of it in the leader.
 * In the section on his diplomatic endeavors for the Caliphate, one instance of his interaction with another emissary, John of Gorze, is sourced to another wikipedia article that describes the book the reference is supposedly quoted from (a direct quote is indeed used) but it doesn't cite the actual text the reference comes from. The remainder of the section lacks any sourcing apart from the citation that this editor provided.
 * The section regarding Hasdai's "jewish activity" contains problematic language. For example, it describes a letter that hasdai wrote in "good Hebrew". what this means exactly is unclear. In addition, the following paragraph describes Hasadai's correspondence with the east but perhaps lacks any form of citation. (the article leans heavily on the work of "Roth" but lacks any sort of title for this author's work nor expands beyond that one name.)
 * Sources
 * Menocal, Ornament of the World
 * Luckhardt, Courtney, A Messenger is the Place of a Man's Judgement: Diplomacy Between Emperors and Caliphs in the Tenth Century.
 * Golb, Norman, The Caliph's Favorite: New Light From Manuscript Sources on Hasdai Ibn Shaprut of Cordova.
 * Golb, Norman, The Caliph's Favorite: New Light From Manuscript Sources on Hasdai Ibn Shaprut of Cordova.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Borte
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's leader doesn't include all of the subsequent sections found in the rest of the article.
 * On the section titled "Ruling", the article repeats itself thus making the article longer than it needs to be.
 * While there is often equity gaps based around gender roles in the ancient, medieval, early modern and even modern periods, emerging historical gender studies might have made gains on the life and role of Borte in the Mongolian state.
 * Sources
 * Possible sources
 * Broadbridge, Anne F. Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University publishers, 2018.
 * De Nicola, Bruno. "Regents and Empresses: Women's Rule in the Mongols' World Empire" in Women in Mongol Iran. Edinburgh: UK. Edinburgh University Press. 2018.
 * Broadbridge, Anne F. Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University publishers, 2018.
 * De Nicola, Bruno. "Regents and Empresses: Women's Rule in the Mongols' World Empire" in Women in Mongol Iran. Edinburgh: UK. Edinburgh University Press. 2018.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Otto Dresel :
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article is a stub article
 * lacks a leader and contains only two categories. This suggests that there could be a good amount of restructuring the article could receive if there is enough additional information from various sources.
 * Sources
 * Barnes, Molly. The Other Otto Dresel: Public and Private Musical Identities in an American 'Forty-Eighter' and His Family, c. 1860-1880. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 2022.
 * Gillespie, John, Urrows, David Francis. "Otto Desel" in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Oxford: UK. Oxford University Press. 2010
 * Gillespie, John, Urrows, David Francis. "Otto Desel" in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Oxford: UK. Oxford University Press. 2010

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