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- In Wikipedia's Katherine Philips Article, I plan to add more to the introduction, highlighting her achievements and emphasizing her importance to not only Irish theatre, but theatre as a whole.

- I plan on using sources from Google Scholar to find these beginning sections and will use library resources if I do not get enough credible material. I plan on adding a section relating to some of the "controversy" or "gossip" that relates to her, i.e. some of the history suggests she engaged in lesbianism, or was into women. I think this would be an interesting idea to dive into, and possibly do more research on and include in her wiki biography. As well, possibly fluffing up the controversy surrounding the opening night of Pompey.

I also later plan (after this draft) on revising the large "Career" section and categorizing some of the information in there, as her death is mentioned and I believe that should be a seperate section as her death does not relate to her career and respectfully I believe it should be its own section. I also plan to add more text to the "Influences" section, by doing more research on her other works, and how she interacted with the other influential writers at the time.

'In the "Career" section, I have moved her marriage information to the "Early Years" section as I feel her marriage should not be in the "Career" section because her career was not'' her marriage. '''

= Katherine Philips [edit] = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Katherine or Catherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664), also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and for her editions of poetry after her death. In 1663, her adaptation of Pompey was the first English language play by a woman to be given a professional staging. She was regarded influential by many significant writers of 17th century literature including John Dryden and John Keats.

Early years[edit]
Born in London, Katherine Philips was daughter of John Fowler, a Presbyterian merchant of Bucklersbury, London. Philips is said to have read the Bible through before she was five years old. Additionally, she acquired remarkable fluency in several languages. She broke with Presbyterian traditions in both religion and politics, and became an ardent admirer of the king and his church policy. After her father's death, she moved to Wales with her newly married mother. She attended boarding school from 1640 to 1645 where she began to write verse within a circle of friends and to appreciate French romances and Cavalier plays from which she would later choose many of the pet names she gave to members of her Society of Friendship. In 1648, at the age of sixteen, she married a Welsh Parliamentarian named James Philips who was thought to be 54 years old. However, the marriage certificate has since proved that he was actually 24 years old. They together had two children, with one of them; Hector born April 23rd and died in May 2nd 1655, tragically dying in infancy, she wrote a poem about him titled "On the death of my first and dearest childe."

Pompey Premiere
On February 10th 1663, Philips premiered her adaptation of the French verse tragedy, Pierre Corneille's, Pompée at Smock Alley. The opening night was notable for its political undertones, as well as having the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the audience. It also had theatre goers of all classes in attendance. Some Catholic, loyal to the monarchy after the war and desiring to acquire their lands back for their families. Others in the audience were Protestant and felt entitled to these same lands based on the promises made to them. Due to Ireland's tense political climate, the theatre was a welcomed escape from these politically complicated Catholic/Protestant relations, following the English Civil War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The play opened with a direct heroic couplet suggesting the idea of two rivals finding a successful compromise:  "The mighty Rivals, whose destructive Rage

Did the whole World in Civil Arms engage,

Are now agreed, and make it both their Choice,

To have their Fates determin'd by your Voice." The speaker failed to mention specific details to the play which are in the script in this opening, allowing the audience to assume the text could be directed at the current political affairs. There are rumours that Phillips was either in the audience, or could have even been an actress in the play herself.

Article evaluation
For this article evaluation, I have chosen to evaluate the article, Point Theatre. This article is relevant to this class because it is about a late theatre in Dublin, and I believe that the stage is a crucial part of theatre. I will be assessing the assigned questions and finding a relevant example in one or more sections within the article.

In terms of evaluating the content, The Point Theatre article is successful in containing fully relevant content, but the overtly distracting emphasis on the "notable events" section leaves very little information for the "sports events" section, as well as the history of the physical building section. Overall, The Point is able to stay on topic, aside from the distracting imbalance of article content for the sections. There is also a citation that is out of date, the page contains an Error 404 Not Found as the cited source has been deleted. Cite list number 36.

Missing information that should be added to the opening paragraph is information on the material the theatre is built out of. Dates should be added in the section titled Criticism. The opening sentence; "The Point was often criticised for its poor quality of sound control and sightlines". This sentence does not specify who said this. Therefore, a notable source with the year this criticism was made is necessary to prove this information is correct. In the subsection "Wrestling" under the section "Sports Events", specific examples should be used in order to prove the claim: "The Point has hosted a number of WWE Smackdown & Raw live events."When referencing an event, it is good practice to reference a specific event that happened so the reader can find more information about the Wrestling history of ThePoint Theatre. As well, if you look through one of the cited event locations, it contains no reference to The Point Theatre at all, so this information is either out of date, or not accurate.

Improvements that could be made to the article are more references, as this article contains many statements that have no secondary source available to back them up, examples of these are provided in the previous answers, but one more example would be "The Point was noted for its flexible seating configurations" Noted by who? This statement needs to be referenced. The formatting could be improved as well, for example, the section of "Notable Events" would look cleaner and easier to read if the events were organized into a table chart, rather than thrown into a messy, long paragraph. The table chart should be organized by type of event, i.e dance performance, music performance; and then sorted chronologically by date.

The article remains neutral, as it does not use any words that shed a particularly positive or negative light on the theatre and its features. The list of events and accomplishments that have occured all are presented matter of factly. The underrepresented viewpoints are the criticisms of the theatre section, and who these viewpoints belong to. As well, there is no mention of overall audience satisfaction or feedback. Statistics should be included to represent the successfulness of the theatre's audience admission, and value. There does not seem to be viewpoints that are overrepresented as the article remains fairly neutral content.

The Talk Page  of this article contains much of the same ideas I share, for example "This section has a problem with listing more about artists than the location itself, much as The O2 (Dublin) used to."(Autarch (talk) 17:39, 18 August 2010 (UTC)). Other Wikipedians have added links and citations to facts, which is called External Link Modifying. There are not any kinds of conversations going on, though someone did go and edit the "Events section" with a thorough explanation for each edit which is good manners. The article is used for 7 WikiProjects, and has been rated C-Class, with mixed opinions of high-mid-low importance.

To conclude, though this article is rated a C-Class article, there are few major and some minor improvements that could be added to move it up as a B-Class article. It is informative and neutral, though the formatting and undercited statements should be edited and improved.

Questions addressed:


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * What else could be improved?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Citations/References
 * Talk Page
 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

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