Connecting to the Future
Red Barn Murder
Red Barn Muder explores the muder of Maria Marten by William Corder, her lover, in Polstead, Suffolk, England in 1827. She was shot in the Red Barn which was a local landmark in the town and then buried there.
1. The earliest activity on the Red Barn Murder was on November 13, 2006 by Yomangani. Most of the edits over time have been cleaning up the article with regard to grammar. There were also additions on a book that was written about the murders and additions of pictures on the article. There were 44 edits in the first 16 days alone. February 2007 had 45 edits. There were 188 edits in November of 2007. After November 2007 the edits begin to taper off, skipping whole months. The latest post was on September 6th 2009. Which added a permanent link to the article.
2. The article today does not look much different from the original article created in November 2006. The original article included the basic facts, the location, information on the murder and the trail and why the public interest. There were also pictures included of the barn itself, Maria Marten—the girl who was murdered, William Corder—the murderer and a painting of the crowd watching the execution. There were also two references. The capture and the trial were eventually expanded upon as was the public interest—a few more pictures were added from newspapers around the time. The current article has both the capture and the trial with their own sections. A section entitled rumors has been added as well as a picture of Maria’s ghost haunting her grave. A part about the dissection of the body was also added. The notes, citations and references have also expanded.
3. This article is well written and has been edited for content and grammar consistently since it was first created. The article maintains an unbiased voice throughout. It does add little tidbits of information in parenthesis when they fit. The content follows the murderer and his victim from their initial meeting through his subsequent execution and dissection in front of witnesses. Most of the information in the article is cited. One thing I really like about this article is that it has a section designated specifically to rumors surrounding the Red Barn Murder. This allows for the rumors to be considered when reading the article but does not commingle with facts. The article is easy to read and has an appropriate length.
4. There are 12 threads in the discussion section on this article. The first two challenge some of the information in the article. The third discusses changes made to an image size. There was a discussion about a Find A Grave profile that was created on William and Maria. A few others discuss songs and movies that were written or created with this story in mind. There was not much substance to the discussions. Few were longer than a couple sentences and not one resulted in more than two people exchanging opinions, information or ideas. Four discussions yielded no response from another user.
5. The most frequent contributor to this article is Yomangani. He made 57 edits from November 2006 to August 2007. He is also part of 4 out of 12 discussions. He has no information on his user page. The next most frequent contributor was Edmund Patrick who had 17 edits. From July 2007 to March 2009. Edmund Patrick’s user page is full of information. He is 57 years old and speaks native English as well as British English. He works at either a museum or heritage worker and has had some of his work published in a magazine and newspaper. He is a virgo who has traveled to 17 other countries.
1. The earliest activity on the Red Barn Murder was on November 13, 2006 by Yomangani. Most of the edits over time have been cleaning up the article with regard to grammar. There were also additions on a book that was written about the murders and additions of pictures on the article. There were 44 edits in the first 16 days alone. February 2007 had 45 edits. There were 188 edits in November of 2007. After November 2007 the edits begin to taper off, skipping whole months. The latest post was on September 6th 2009. Which added a permanent link to the article.
2. The article today does not look much different from the original article created in November 2006. The original article included the basic facts, the location, information on the murder and the trail and why the public interest. There were also pictures included of the barn itself, Maria Marten—the girl who was murdered, William Corder—the murderer and a painting of the crowd watching the execution. There were also two references. The capture and the trial were eventually expanded upon as was the public interest—a few more pictures were added from newspapers around the time. The current article has both the capture and the trial with their own sections. A section entitled rumors has been added as well as a picture of Maria’s ghost haunting her grave. A part about the dissection of the body was also added. The notes, citations and references have also expanded.
3. This article is well written and has been edited for content and grammar consistently since it was first created. The article maintains an unbiased voice throughout. It does add little tidbits of information in parenthesis when they fit. The content follows the murderer and his victim from their initial meeting through his subsequent execution and dissection in front of witnesses. Most of the information in the article is cited. One thing I really like about this article is that it has a section designated specifically to rumors surrounding the Red Barn Murder. This allows for the rumors to be considered when reading the article but does not commingle with facts. The article is easy to read and has an appropriate length.
4. There are 12 threads in the discussion section on this article. The first two challenge some of the information in the article. The third discusses changes made to an image size. There was a discussion about a Find A Grave profile that was created on William and Maria. A few others discuss songs and movies that were written or created with this story in mind. There was not much substance to the discussions. Few were longer than a couple sentences and not one resulted in more than two people exchanging opinions, information or ideas. Four discussions yielded no response from another user.
5. The most frequent contributor to this article is Yomangani. He made 57 edits from November 2006 to August 2007. He is also part of 4 out of 12 discussions. He has no information on his user page. The next most frequent contributor was Edmund Patrick who had 17 edits. From July 2007 to March 2009. Edmund Patrick’s user page is full of information. He is 57 years old and speaks native English as well as British English. He works at either a museum or heritage worker and has had some of his work published in a magazine and newspaper. He is a virgo who has traveled to 17 other countries.
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Comment by John Lee on October 7, 2009 at 12:06pm - Interesting how this article showed up in original form with a relative high level of quality. This seems to be one pathway for WP articles, particularly articles that might not have a large readerships or a significant number of people capable of contributing. The article averages about 60 hits per day as compared to the article on Ipswich which get over 500 hits a day. You can check stats at http://stats.grok.se/
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