GenevieveHis313

Peer Review Comment

Hello GenevieveHis313!

Thanks for sharing your draft of the Great Fire of Rome with me, I learnt a lot! I'm not sure if you're going to update the Lead section with your additions to the Great Fire of Rome. I definitely think you could add a sentence or two with the great new sections that you have added, but no worries if not because it is already a introduction to the article! I thought that you added great content to the Great Fire page! I really enjoyed the added youtube videos that looks specifically into the science of fire to understand what happened in the past. Could you add even more content from the sources that you have already found, or maybe find some additional sources? The youtube videos, of course, are great, and is there content that you could add from historians that is rooted in historical practice? I thought you did a good job are relaying the information that you gleaned from the other sources to the wikipage without inserting bias. You do a good job at finding a diversity of sources in terms of where they come from and whether they are text or video, which makes it more interactive! Could you look into the WWU library database to find some historical and scholarly articles on the Great Fire as well? I love using Discovery Channel and other sources to learn, it always makes me curious if the historians in the field agree with their takes or if they are doing pop-science to try to make meaning of the ancient past. The book that you source seems like a good source, too. Could you possibly make the hyperlink go to the publisher's page of the book? One of the links did not work for me and the other one sent me to a google page for the book. I think using scholars even more as sourcing would make your additions even stronger. I thought your writing was very clear and understandable. You organized the content that you added very well and I think that it will merge into the article well when the time comes. Overall I thought that you are doing a great job and adding crucial information to this article! It will make readers understand the Great Fire of Rome better. The context that you have added helps the reader better understand the place and time in which the Great Fire occurred and in which the debates over its meaning happened. The video sources are great to draw readers to the sources and thinking about how we know what we know. Could you add more articles that add to what we know about the Great Fire or complicate our understandings? You're doing awesome and I can't wait to see what you eventually add to the page! Anctrome3132020 (talk) 05:16, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

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