User:Mteakert/Jewel Box (St. Louis)/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.

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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

“Jewel Box.” Stlouis, www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/parks/parks/Jewel-Box.cfm. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.

- This source is the St. Louis, Missouri government website under the parks division tab. It provides strong information on history of the Jewel Box, renovations the Jewel Box has undergone, as well as, current information about the Jewel Box and it's significance to St. Louis.

“St. Louis and the Missouri River Valley’s Landscape Legacy.” TCLF, www.tclf.org/forest-park-jewel-box. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.

. - This source is The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), which is a non-profit founded in 1998 to connect people to places. They work to educate and engage the public to study landscapes and who created them. Their website serves as a database for the pioneers of landscape design in America. This source provides good information on the background of the Jewel Box and the history behind its creation.

"Restoring the glory." St.Louis Commerce, Apr 01, 1998, pp. 56. ProQuest, https://www.libproxy.uwyo.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/restoring-glory/docview/211174540/se-2.

- This source discusses the history of Forest Park, where the Jewel Box is located. It also provides a little bit of specific information on the renovations of the Jewel Box in the early 2000s.

"Engineering firm with a history selected for Jewel Box work." St.Louis Business Journal, vol. 22, no. 7, 2001, pp. 54. ProQuest, https://www.libproxy.uwyo.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/engineering-firm-with-history-selected-jewel-box/docview/228323068/se-2.

- This source is about the engineering firm selected to work on the Jewel Box in their renovations. It connects the company to the original architect/engineer Willian C.E. Becker from 1936. It gives some interesting information on the construction of it and how it held up against weather conditions.

Outline of proposed changes

The current article starts out with a general background section going over where the Jewel Box is and who designed it and built it. I think this section is fairly strong might add a sentence or so, but not much more to be said and it's good to keep that section relatively short.

Then it moves into the History section. I think that I could pull information from all four of my sources to add to this section. I think I will find the most valuable information for this section in the TCLF source.

The next section talks about the construction of the Jewel Box. I would like to add a little bit to this section with information from the TCLF source and from the St. Louis Business Journal source.

That's the end of what is on the current wikipedia article. I would like to add a section on the renovations done to the Jewel Box in 2001. All four of my sources have information on this and I think that this is a good section to have and something that is currently non-existent on the article.

I would also like to add a more current section to talk about what the Jewel Box is used for now almost 100 years after it's creation.

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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