Wikipedia:Peer review/Quedagh Merchant/archive1

Quedagh Merchant

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • Watch peer review

A script has been used to generate a semi-automated review of the article for issues relating to grammar and house style; it can be found on the automated peer review page for March 2009.

This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because I need WikiPedians who know more about this topic than I do, assist me in getting this eventually promoted to GA status.

Thanks, Neonblak ^talk - 03:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Finetooth comments: Kidd's story is interesting, and this could become an illuminating article. The main problem, though, is that it relies almost entirely on one source, the book by Zacks. This means that it isn't broad in coverage and has no chance at GA without additional information. To be considered for GA eventually, it would also need to be illustrated. I have a couple of suggestions about how you might proceed.

Although you can't use Wikipedia as a reliable source, you can use it as a research aid. The Wikipedia article on William Kidd includes a bibliography. The Zack book is listed, but so are many others. Suggestion: Obtain from the library or elsewhere as many of the books in the William Kidd bibliography as you can. Each of them is likely to have a bibliography with the titles of other books and articles about Kidd. Find and read as many of these as you can. Based on this research, re-write the article with less emphasis on the small details of the Quedagh voyage, such as the names of most of the ports of call on the journey to New York, and more emphasis on details about Kidd, his other voyages, the people he worked for, his imprisonment and death, and the controversy about whether he was a pirate or not.

Image suggestion: The William Kidd article has images that you might be able to use to illustrate this article.

I hope these couple of suggestions prove helpful. I would think the reading of the Kidd books itself would be fascinating, and you never know what you might find. Finetooth (talk) 03:22, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]