User talk:Cameronmac1/Choose an Article

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Thanks for thinking through the content of a few different articles. I actually don't recommend that you focus on a particular individual or a particular event because you're going to find it hard to get enough scholarly information. And, in fact, all your potential sources are websites. Remember that Wikipedia is looking for articles to be based on reliable (especially scholarly) sources. You, as a university student, have unique access to such materials.

Generally speaking, scholarly sources are going to talk about broader cultural aspects. If they talk about individual people or events, it's often as examples of the broader issues that they're trying to explain. For the purposes of this particular assignment, I'd like you to focus on a broader article. If you want to make reference to someone like Gordon Duncan as an example of an important characteristic or issue in that article and link to his article, go for it.

So focus on the scholarly sources that you've read for this course or that are listed for each unit of the course. You already have a lot of information available to you that is not referenced in Wikipedia. Use it! For example, could you draw on Newton for the pibroch article, or on Shears for the Great Highland bagpipe article? CBFraoch (talk) 15:57, 19 November 2023 (UTC)