Wikipedia Article Analysis: #3

I don't want to sound too demented for saying this, but I always take a fascination to things like horror movies, books, etc. So I chose to research the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre for the third Wikipedea Article Analysis. The search result was a good article describing the actual event, death tolls, and a lengthy analysis of the societal affect. Besides the obvious tensions between Roman Catholics and Protestants, the article focuses primarily on two major reasons for occurrence of this massacre: the failed assassination of Coligny and the unacceptable marriage between the queen's daughter Marguerite de Valois (a Catholic) and Henry of Navarre (a Protestant and future King Henry IV). The other main aspect of the article consisted of different reactions to the massacre from other countries--almost all of them condemning the event.



Listed Criteria:



1.) There are 2,838 words in the article.

2.) Exact search term: "St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre" Article title was the same.

3.) There was no disambiguation link.

4.) For the discussion tab, I found several entries explaining this page's relationship to other various "projects" such as the "religion project."

5.) There are over 1500 changes to this article. The most recent change was September 8, 08. The first change was posted on April 4, 06.

6.) Three external links are listed.

7.) Four references are listed.

8.) Nothing under further reading. But there were (as always) plenty of good pictures.



My final assessment of this article is that it was a great article. It was an interesting subject for me, and the article gave plenty of good clear information supplied with a ton of pictures and other links. I would definitely suggest this article for someone just wanting to know what this event was. The article would however, not be an adequate source for a research paper--even though it gives such a lengthy "societal perspective."