User:Amandashowler/Choose an Article

Article Selection[edit]

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

Article title: Betty Broderick
Article Evaluation: Rated a C; Add more to the Engagement and marriage section needs to be added to, the couple was married for 16 years and only mentions the birth of children; Remove Dan completed a doctoral degree and going to Harvard and move to the marriage section. The breakdown of their marriage didn't begin until Dan already had his own practice and hired an assistant (Linda); Add pictures
Sources: https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/betty-broderick

Article title: Battle of Vimy Ridge
Article Evaluation: Featured article; Doesn't mention the tactic Creeping/Rolling Barrage which would detonate artillery in a line in front of the troops in a line. They kept it moving like a shield so the soldiers would move in behind it. The German soldiers would hide their head in the trenches due to the artillery fire.
Sources: https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/information-for/educators/learning-modules/vimy-ridge/operation-vimy-story

Article title: Michael Peterson (criminal)
Article Evaluation: Info Box is empty with a VTE link (fix); There they befriended Elizabeth and George Ratliff and their two children, Margaret and Martha. After George's death, the Peterson and Ratliff families became very close. When Elizabeth Ratliff died in 1985, Michael became the guardian of her two children. (Fix for errors, should expand on George's and Elizabeth's death), Elizabeth's death was suspicious in comparison to how Kathleen's death. It is expanded on later in the article but here I think it should have a small summary.; Suspicion Surrounding Elizabeth Ratcliff's death should be kept to only this topic, a new heading should be created for the wrongful death claim information; Add more information from the marriage of Kathleen.; Add about fireplace poker found in the basement; Add pictures
Sources: https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/michael-peterson/

Article title: C.S Lewis
Article Evaluation: Rated C; Needs to fix inconsistent references (formats change); Change to British writer; Add more about the Chronicles of Narnia and its success
Sources: https://www.cslewis.com/us/

Article title: Watts family murders
Article Evaluation: Rated C Class Explain why he received 5 life sentences, 2 for each child (because they were under 12 and he had a position of trust) and 1 for Shannon, his wife. He also received additional years for unlawful termination of a pregnancy and tampering with a deceased body.; Add pictures? Wikipedia commons; Motive was life insurance and 5.5 weeks with Nicole Kessinger, the woman from work he was having an affair with (source?)
Sources: https://www.biography.com/news/chris-watts-wife-daughters-murder-mistress-confession-timeline