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Article Selection

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

I just want to mention these are in no order of priority of how I would like to work on them. I am opened for anything you think would be a better article for editing. If none of these seem to be a good choice, I am opened up for anything you suggest.

Option 1

Article title

Masters of the Universe

Also would tie in with

List of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe characters

Article Evaluation

This article is listed as Start-Class

The tag on the article page mentions that the page has multiple issues, some dealing with being too long. In the talk discussions talk was brought up to split the information of the page into different areas making them more fluid and easier to understand. Going by the information that was supplied, I can see how this is difficult to navigate through all the information. Being that the main article is Masters of the Universe I would suggest being showing only The history pertaining to the story and links bringing you to other pages once a character is talked about. The information relating to media, should be removed to it own page, along with the mentioning of the toys should be on their own page. At the bottom of the page in See Also Section, their should be the references to the moved information the readers can follow that to get to the information relevant to what they want to read. This needs characters information added for the List of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe characters

This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject Toys (Rated Start-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject Animation / American (Rated Start-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject Comics / DC Comics / Marvel (Rated C-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject Media franchises (Rated Start-class, High-importance)

One of the reasons this interests me is because I grew up watching them, and playing with the toys. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe are an iconic franchise to almost any one who has watched them, played with the toys, and even read the comics.

Sources

  Laycock, Joseph. “Myth Sells: Mattel’s Commission of the Masters of the Universe Bible.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 22, no. 2, University of Toronto Press, 2010, p. 38–.

  Stevens, J. Richard. “How He-Man Mastered the Universe: Toy to Television to the Big Screen.” American Journal of Play, vol. 10, no. 2, The Strong, 2018, pp. 235–37.

Option 2

Article title

Obelisk

Article Evaluation

This is a Start-Class article

This article I feel could use more about why these obelisk were constructed in the areas they are found. Also checking in the meaning behind those obelisk and if it ties in with the original ideals of the usage of them. Missing information such as the Tello Obelisk, hawilt, or hawilti. Follow some suggestions on the talk area such as verifying the numbers of different obelisk in other countries. Maybe fact check some of the information since one post mentioned that Washington has the tallest obelisk when another source in the Genius Book of World Records had the San Jacinto Monument being 15 feet taller.

This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject Ancient Egypt (Rated Start-class, High-importance) WikiProject Architecture (Rated Start-class, High-importance)

This appeals to me because seeing these structures leaves me in awe and wonder by thinking of the time they were making them, and how precise these where without the modern day tools we use. Also like the overall lore surrounding them.

Sources

  Isler, Martin. “The Curious Luxor Obelisks.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 73, 1987, p. 137–, doi:10.2307/3821525.

Option 3

Article title

History of computer science

Article Evaluation

This article shows a banner stating this page needs to be updated with new information that is available or recent events. On first glance I also noticed this article is missing citations. The timeline of this history seems to stop in the 1950s. There has been some remarkable breakthroughs with computer science since them, that show be included such as deep learning, Also, quantum computing should be listed in this area to name a few.

This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: WikiProject Computing (Rated Start-class, High-importance) WikiProject Computer science (Rated Start-class, Top-importance) WikiProject History of Science (Rated Start-class, High-importance) WikiProject History (Rated Start-class, High-importance)

I am interested in this because I am fascinated by technology and how far we have come since the start of computer science.

Sources

  Voulodimos, Athanasios, et al. “Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A Brief Review.” Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2018, Hindawi, 2018, pp. 7068349–13, doi:10.1155/2018/7068349.

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