User:Ryan McGrady/spring2014/com257/article second draft

Milestone description

For the first draft of your article you were asked to prepare a complete encyclopedia article with no obvious holes or glaring issues on the page, satisfying the most basic elements of the Good Article criteria.

After the first draft, you will receive feedback from me as well as from members of other groups in class. You are responsible for addressing this feedback for your second draft in addition to any regular improvements you make. Suggestions typically are not mandatory. As with the key Wikipedia policy, ignore them if they don't make for a better Wikipedia article.

If you have not already, it's particularly at this stage that you'll have to start digging/looking around for templates, style guidelines, and other information that will help you to meet Good Article standards. It would help you to look for examples of articles similar in subject to your article from among the list of Good Articles -- or, even better, Featured Articles (which meet all of the Good Article criteria and more).

A score of 0, 0.5, or 1 will be given based on whether or not your article meets these requirements on the day this milestone is due.

Some general considerations are below.

Sources

Have you found and used all of the reliable sources you can? Have you checked

• Google
• Google Books
• Google Scholar
• NCSU Library book/article search

Images

Images are required for the final draft. You are responsible for beginning work looking for them now. If you wait until the week before the final draft is due to email an organization requesting permission to use an image and they take more than a week to get back to you, that's not a good excuse. Search now.

• if the image was published prior to 1923, it is out of copyright. Everything else requires permission.
• Google Advanced Image Search -- under "Then narrow your results by:" change the item "Usage rights" so that it says "free to use, share or modify, even commercially."
• Search the Wikimedia Commons
• many other public domain image resources here -- note that the quality of these sites varies significantly, and the list is subject to frequent nonsense being added (e.g. people creating a WordPress, adding 2 photos, declaring them public domain, filling the site with ads, and trying to get people to visit). Most of them are good, though.
• Also see the finding images tutorial on Wikipedia