Sunday, October 19, 2008

WIKIPEDIA 2

This article talks about Pepin the Short, also called Pepin III and Pepin the Young. It describes how his father Charles Mantel divided the rule of the Frankish kingdom, between Pepin and his elder brother Carloman, when he died. The brothers pass the power to Childeric who then was taken off the power when Pepin was named king. It also talks about the expansion of the Frankish realm and this article shows a chart of Pepin’s family.

1. Article is 1,600 words.
2. Search term: Pepin Article name: Pepin the short.
3. No disambiguation link.
4. In the discussion I found a couple people trying to get the name Pepin changed to Pippin, which is the actual name in German. And they also mentioned that the title “the short” is a mistranslation.
5. There are 500 changes, the earliest on 2/3/2006 and the latest on 5/4/2008.
6. No external links provided.
7. No references.
8. No further reading.

I would recommend this article to people that just want basic information about Pepin the Short. But I wouldn’t recommend it for a serious research because there weren’t any references and that makes the article’s information a little hard to trust.

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