User:TheVictorGoesTheSpoils/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

In a previous history class I did a major project on Venetian naval culture, and military history. This article is a direct consequence of the rise of the Venetian trade empire and the fall of Constantinople at the end of the 13th century. This is the intersection of the limit on my knowledge as well as a fixation I have had on this topic for the last year. It matters for this class because it is in line with the technological strides made in the late 13th century and its application to means of war. In particular the import of gunpowder and its use on merchant marine and therefore military vessels.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead entry in this article is pretty well put together, it is concise and gets the point of the article across with relative ease. It includes all the relevant points and leads into the next 2 sections. This is a shorter article so having a shorter lead section is okay and makes sense in this case.

Some of the major issues I have with this article stem from the organization of the years of the war. It should be broken down into years and significant conflicts in those years, and ultimately how it impacted the outcome of the war. Nothing on the declaration of war, or relating back to the first ottoman-venetian war. There are no sources on some of the more important battles like the first battle of Lepanto, or even an accurate picture of venetian and ottoman land holdings at the time. These things are important to get a better idea of what was being fought for and land taken and or traded by the warring of these two powers.