User:StultusMagnus/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

 * Ermengarde of Anjou (d. 1146)
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is fairly sparse overall and only has one source properly cited though there are other sources mentioned in footnotes. Several claims throughout the article have no citation at all such as the analysis that Ermengarde of Anjou may have suffered from schizophrenia. The content that is cited could be expanded on a great deal especially the segment about her later years and death and segments which reference disputes over some of the information about her such as the claim she may never have been married to William IX. There is no activity on the talk page of this article and it is listed as a start-class article. The biggest difficulty with this article would be tracking down sources for some of the claims or editing out those claims which cannot be found in reliable literature.
 * This article is fairly sparse overall and only has one source properly cited though there are other sources mentioned in footnotes. Several claims throughout the article have no citation at all such as the analysis that Ermengarde of Anjou may have suffered from schizophrenia. The content that is cited could be expanded on a great deal especially the segment about her later years and death and segments which reference disputes over some of the information about her such as the claim she may never have been married to William IX. There is no activity on the talk page of this article and it is listed as a start-class article. The biggest difficulty with this article would be tracking down sources for some of the claims or editing out those claims which cannot be found in reliable literature.

Option 2

 * Infantry in the Middle Ages
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article covers a very broad topic and is rated high importance by the Middle Ages project yet it is still rated as a "start" page. Two areas that I would like to see expanded are the descriptions of troop formations used at the time and in the section discussing prominent infantry troop types. The section on formations offers 3 examples identified by the historian Philippe Contamine in a book from 1984. The descriptions of each formation are only one or two sentences long and could benefit from specific examples or more recent sources of analysis. Similarly the section on troop types is surprisingly sparse, only giving brief descriptions of Swiss pikemen, crossbow use in general, and English longbowmen. Any of these could be expanded upon or more type of infantry from the period such as early uses of gunpowder, swordsmen and spearmen could be added to the article. The talk page on this article seems to be inactive with only a couple of posts from 2008 and the most recent comment being from 2016.
 * This article covers a very broad topic and is rated high importance by the Middle Ages project yet it is still rated as a "start" page. Two areas that I would like to see expanded are the descriptions of troop formations used at the time and in the section discussing prominent infantry troop types. The section on formations offers 3 examples identified by the historian Philippe Contamine in a book from 1984. The descriptions of each formation are only one or two sentences long and could benefit from specific examples or more recent sources of analysis. Similarly the section on troop types is surprisingly sparse, only giving brief descriptions of Swiss pikemen, crossbow use in general, and English longbowmen. Any of these could be expanded upon or more type of infantry from the period such as early uses of gunpowder, swordsmen and spearmen could be added to the article. The talk page on this article seems to be inactive with only a couple of posts from 2008 and the most recent comment being from 2016.



Option 3

 * Monasteranenagh Abbey
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very sparse with little information and that which is present all being listed off in simple short sentences with no continuity. Most of the sources in this article come from old websites that look like they haven't been touched since 2009 and inexplicably a website that seems to focus on ancient Egypt. This article would benefit greatly from the use of scholarly sources or even references to the monastery in older literature. The writing style could be greatly and easily improved. The talk page on this article is empty and there seems to be no current effort to improve the article.
 * This article is very sparse with little information and that which is present all being listed off in simple short sentences with no continuity. Most of the sources in this article come from old websites that look like they haven't been touched since 2009 and inexplicably a website that seems to focus on ancient Egypt. This article would benefit greatly from the use of scholarly sources or even references to the monastery in older literature. The writing style could be greatly and easily improved. The talk page on this article is empty and there seems to be no current effort to improve the article.