User:Cwichtricks99

Bio

Hello, my name is Charles. I am currently a freshman at Everett Community College. I've spent most of my life in California until just recently when I decided to move to Washington. I love the cold weather, constant coffee shops, and diverse group of people Everett has to offer. If I'm not doing schoolwork I am probably running, hiking, traveling, watching a movie, or spending time with friends.

Some subjects of Wikipedia that I am interested in learning are law and lobbying. My dream job is to become a lobbyist. A lobbyist is someone who legally represents an organization or campaign with the intention of creating, changing, or removing legislation. If I become more involved with Wikipedia in the future, I could see myself contributing articles on contrasting viewpoints of different debate topics.

Article Critique

I grew up in a small rural town called Manteca in central California. After finishing elementary school in 2014, I attended Sierra High School until 2018. Sierra High was such an important aspect of my life and the basis for many of my career-orientated goals, which is why I wanted to elaborate on Wikipedia's knowledge of it. I visited the Sierra High School (Manteca, California) page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its incomplete history on Sports, its lack of information on Academic Rallies, and the entire neglect of its Digital Movement in 2015.

Sports

The Sports section of the page is over-represented and developed in comparison to the Academic Rallies section. It features the eleven athletic teams and several of their major successes from 2011 to the present day. However, nothing is mentioned about sports before 2011 despite the school being open since 1994. This seventeen-year gap fails to provide any history on the school's early development in its athletics division. There are also no citations for any of the athletic achievements or records to verify if these achievements are correct.

Academic Rallies

There is little information regarding academic rallies on the page. In addition to the titles of Lobo Blue, Lobo Silver, and Lobo Gold awarded to students, there are also "Paw Cards" given out, which the Wikipedia article has left out. These Paw Cards can be used for homework extensions, late passes, detention substitutes, etc. They are only valid until the next rally occurs, which is either during the winter or spring semester.

Digital Movement

One of the biggest events to ever take place at Sierra High School was their digital movement in 2015. The Manteca Unified School District used 30 million dollars of state funding from the Education Department to purchase over 24,000 Panasonic tablets for all students in kindergarten through the twelfth grade, according to Fox News . While this page was last edited on May 17th, 2018, nothing about the digital transition was mentioned.

Summary

In my opinion, this page does not represent the current state of Sierra High School. The article itself has only two citations: One to a 2017 page regarding student statistics and another to the 2009 school homepage. It is evident that the Wikipedia page needs to be updated to include current events. Adding the present homepage link and more citations would improve the quality of this page.