User:Hotpinklovers

Bio

Welcome to my Wikipedia page! Contrary to the username I am not a fan of hot pink, my favorite color is actually blue. To get to know me better, I love music. Piano and singing is my expertise but I also play the guitar and alto saxophone. I am currently majoring in Computer Science and I am hoping that will not change. My favorite pastime is anything to do with being outside and exploring. This mostly consists of hanging out with friends in the city, trying out new cafes and restaurants, exploring nature, and basically anything touristy.

In the future, I could see myself contributing to Wikipedia by fixing grammar errors, citation errors, or adding to pages on topics that I am well educated on. Since I am Ukrainian I see myself adding to anything that has to do with its culture. My interest in music could also lead me to contribute to pages about piano and singing. Once I advance in my career of Computer Science, i would definitely be needing to get more informed about it therefore inspiring me to possibly add to pages I researched about.

Article evaluation

I have currently been reading the book Saltwater Slavery, written by Stephanie E. Smallwood, for history class. Curious about the book itself, I decided to visit its Wikipedia page. While reading this article, I found a few things that were worth mentioning. Although there are a few links and citations, it does not compare to how many are missing. Along with missing links and citations, the article does not have any activity on its talk page and the structure of it is written almost like an advertisement or press release. Seeing as the author won an award, it would not be a surprise to find information about her on Wikipedia, or even a bit about her on the Wikipedia page on the Saltwater Slavery book. Unfortunately there was no further information.

Citations

Usually a Wikipedia article has links to almost every word mentioned on the page with citations following the sentences, but this page hardly had any. The only citations were at the very top when mentioning that it was the winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Price. There are times when a reader stumbles upon a word or name that they do not know and Wikipedia articles are great at providing links to nearly every other word. The "Saltwater Slavery" page has very few links which could leave readers confused and skeptical about the article.

Talk page and missing information

While reading the article, it sounded to me like it was one person who wrote it so I decided to check out the talk page. Surprisingly, there was no talk page. It makes me wonder who visits the page or whether it has been checked by others for reliability. Along with a missing talk page, it had some missing information. The article was good at mentioning themes and form but did not have information that other Wikipedia book articles do. Some of these include: style, genres, reception, adaptation, development, and the list goes on. The article is written is if it is advertising or just summarizing the book when it should not only be about the book, but everything outside of its pages.

Author

The author is a crucial part of any book. Readers would hopefully want to know who the person is that wrote the book they are reading. The article should provide a background about the author to illustrate that the author is a reliable one. This could include providing previous books that the author wrote, education, and even the reason why the author decided to write this book. The article fails to provide any of these points leaving a huge gap in the very intent of the article, to provide the basic information about a book.

Summery

The overall article has a great format and does provide information about what the book is all about, but it sounds more like a summery than a Wikipedia article. If there were more citations for reliability and a section about the author, it could show to be more reliable. Adding more information about the book's history and the effect it had could also help enlighten readers.The missing talk page does act as a bit of a reliability issue since it looks as if only one person contributed to the page. All of these little findings are things that, when added together, can make a huge difference to the article overall.