User:Charlie Sewall/Phaistos/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Bibliography

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Bibliography

Edit this section to compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment. Add the name and/or notes about what each source covers, then use the "Cite" button to generate the citation for that source.

Hawes, Charles Henry; Hawes, Harriet Boyd. 1922. Crete, The Forerunner of Greece, London and New York Harper & Brothers.
- This book has some general information about the city and its original rediscovery. It also has a lot of details about the palace.
Hood, Sinclair. 1971. The Minoans; The Story of Bronze Age Crete, Praeger Publishers Inc.
- This book follows up on the palace and city briefly and has some in depth information about pottery.
Papapostolou, J.A. 1981. Crete: Knossos, Phaistos, Mallia, Aghia, Triadha, Zakros, and the Herakleion Museum. Athens: CLIO Editions.
- This book is mostly pictures and information about the palace and some artifacts. It has some artistic recreations as well.
Mellersh, H.E.L. 1967. Minoan Crete. Evans Brothers Limited London.
- This book has additional information about the palace and some comparisons to other Minoan cities.
Hans Georg Wunderlich. 1972. The Secret of Crete. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
- This book has detailed information about rooms in the palace and what their purpose is. It also has some depictions of what rooms look like.

Examples:

Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
- This is a book published by a university press, so it should be a reliable source. It also covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact. Since it only dedicates a few sentences to the topic, it can't be used to establish notability.

References

Outline of proposed changes

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My article is lacking a lot of information about the palace and its layout. There are no pictures of the layout of the palace and only one or two rooms are in the article. I want to add more about the different rooms and what makes the palace different from other palaces. I also want to add a lot more about the excavation and the artifacts found in Phaistos. Most of my sources have information about the palace and excavation, which is most of what it missing in the article.

I want to reorganize most of the information that is currently in the article. A lot of the information seems to be in the wrong location within the article. There is also no section about the palace, so the information about it is spread loosely throughout the article in sections that don't require palace information. Lots of information seems to be useless and generally the article lacks citations for any information, making it difficult to tell if anything is true. I want to look for citations that match with uncited information in the article for fact checking and removal of false information. I am also looking to update the dates used in the article. I also want to change words to be less opinion oriented and to make reading the article easier. I also want to add more pictures, specifically on the palace and artifacts, to give some visual reference for the information. If I can, I want to take a look at the mythology section and see if there is more to add.

Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.

In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.

Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.

Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.

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