User talk:Savannah Stout/sandbox

The work done on monotheism is really well done, very in depth and answers all question, could have explained him being the "father of monotheism" more. The work done on prophetic lineage is good for an introduction but I think that it would be well worth it and not very hard to go deeper into the actual "lineage" and the future prophets leading to Muhammad. This would clear up many of the questions that are asked about the connection of Islam and othe Abrahamic ties. Good use of quotes on both parts. I give it a B+.

JM's Peer Review
Two comments on what your individual changes do well:

Provides more discussion of the functions and roles of several Islamic prophets in the Qur'an.

I think you've done some reorganization of the existing content, which is helpful. This article overall still suffers from a lack of clear organization, and questions in my mind as to the relevancy of some existing sections (Scriptures and Other Gifts, Numbers, Holy Gifts, Other Persons). How to deal with this is up to your group; I would recommend reviewing them, determining if they are essential to the topic, and if so then revise a bit to make their relevancy clear. This does not require more research on your part; it asks you to insert some clearer language in those sections. (Group task that I will restate in a group feedback to everyone).

Two comments on what needs improvement:

The entry needs a "lead section" that summarizes the most important points of the entry that gives a quick summary of the entry in plain language. See the "Editing Wikipedia" guide for examples. (Group task)

"Characteristics" section: the discussion here needs to be improved with references to scholarly works (see Ernst, Gade's "Intro to the Qur'an) on typologies of prophethood in the Qur'an. This will address the existing Wikipedia comment that the section relies too much on primary sources. Remember how we discussed this in class--all of that should be useful in these revisions. The functions of the prophets for how the Qur'an represents Muhammad is a clear content gap in this section and the article overall.

"Female Prophets" section: delete anything that is attributed to a questionable source. This section needs to be improved by references to secondary scholarship on the topic. I bought Kecia Ali's new article precisely for this purpose (available on UTC Learn). (Group task, or Norah's task if this was her assigned section).

Preliminary grade: B/C Jaclyn-Michael (talk) 21:04, 8 April 2019 (UTC)