User:Sqe2023/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
 * Henri Martin


 * Article Evaluation
 * Very slim biographical information
 * No explanation of political activism or of time spent in Vietnam in connection to communist effort
 * No reference to supporting French communist figures or ideologically influential figures
 * Semi-informative page exists in French


 * Sources
 * http://indochine.uqam.ca/en/historical-dictionary/858-martin-henri-1927.html
 * Alain Ruscio, L'affaire Henri Martin et la lutte contre la guerre d'Indochine
 * https://fdgpierrebe.over-blog.com/2015/02/deces-d-henri-martin-hommage-de-pierre-laurent.html
 * David Caute, The Fellow-travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism Henri Martin, Article in the Australian Left Review (ALR) 1967
 * Philip Watts, Sarte's Republic 1953
 * Raphael Samuel, The Lost World of British Communism David Drake, The 'Anti-Existentialist Offensive': The French Communist Party against Sartre (1944—1948)

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Mary Low (Mary Stanley Low)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Slim article exists in French
 * Does not expand on Low's connection to Trotskyism or her ties to communist ideology
 * Refers mainly to her position as a poet and writer
 * Briefly mentions influential thought-leaders and political contemporaries
 * no mention of her thoughts on the communist parties during her time in Spain


 * Sources
 * Susana Bayó Belenguer, Mary Low: A Trotskyist with the POUM in Barcelona https://serhistorico.net/2019/03/17/mary-low-poeta-surrealista-trotskista-y-revolucionaria-1912-2007/
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/reader-center/overlooked-obituary-grandmothers.html
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mary-low-434250.html
 * https://www.marxists.org/history/spain/writers/low-brea/red_spanish_notebook.html
 * https://www.workersliberty.org/blogs/2017-07-26/mary-low-machado-1912-2007
 * Christian Høgsbjerg, A Kind of Bible of Trotskyism': Reflections on C.L.R. James's World Revolution

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Ernst Däumig


 * Article Evaluation
 * Only two sentences of biographical information, a sentence about his political involvements, and two sentences on his ideological development
 * No exploration into his communist ties
 * Expansion needed of his involvement in the November Revolution


 * Sources
 * David W. Morgan, Ernst Däumig and the German Revolution of 1918
 * Todd Weir, Between Colonial Violence and Socialist Worldview: The Conversions of Ernst Däumig Moritz Föllmer, The Unscripted Revolution: Male Subjectivities in Germany, 1918–1919
 * Daniel Gaido, Paul Levi and the Origins of the United-Front Policy in the Communist International.
 * Albert S. Lindemann, Entering the Comintern: Negotiations Between the Bolsheviks and Western Socialists at the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920
 * https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/d/a.htm#daumig-ernst