User:StultusMagnus/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The White Ship

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because we talked about it briefly in class so I am somewhat familiar with it.

Evaluate the article
This article does a good job at covering some of the major points to this story but it is very short and some of the details are either missing or possibly inaccurate such as the note that the sole survivor was the butcher rather than a butcher's son as some sources state. The talk page seems to be very inactive apart from two entries in the last year mentioning a possible discovery of the shipwreck and an editor asking to add more information from a different topic. The sources used could be improved as several secondary sources date back 40 or more years and one of the more recent sources, Dan Jones, is not a great academic source as he is more of a journalist. Images used are good and well captioned. The biggest improvement could be made by adding detail to the section titles Shipwreck.