Jaylott05

Bio

About me

I was born in Everett, Washington in 2002, and is the second child to an older sister. growing up I played a sport called roller derby for roughly 11 years until my junior year when I stopped and joined my friends soccer team. I made a point to continue doing sports all through school because students also playing sports are recorded to have higher self respect, confidence and leadership skills. In high school I participated in our theater program as the "Prop lead" and was the manager of all the props for the shows, I did that for roughly three years. I would consider my hobbies to be watching movies and spending time with my friends, I always love to branch out and try new things!

My Wikipedia interests

I will be using Wikipedia though this English class and hopefully after gaining a better understanding of it I can use it more.

Article Evaluation

Junior roller derby (JRDA) is an association meant for people under the age of 18 to play roller derby openly and in competition. I played for the JRDA roller derby league, Seattle Derby Brats for 11 years starting when I was 5 years old until I moved on at 16. I competed nationally for three years and was on the team while it held the #1 title for its third year in a row. I wanted to do some more research into the JRDA site so I visited the JRDA article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on, Citations, Neutrality, and age of the site.

Citations

The JRDA page has a few up to date citations. When going through the website it has a few unrelated links that don't connect to JRDA or that are to close to the subject. There are references at the bottom of the page but they are links to division brackets of past years and not the sport itself. This page needs more citations to finish its verification, which makes this site unreliable for in depth research on the topic.

Neutrality

This page has citations that are that are directed to specific regions of the country that make this source bias about some teams and leagues. This page leaves out the pages of some other teams and leagues. They need more sources to keep this topic neutral and trust worthy.

Age

This site was started in 2007 and has had its most recent edit November, 2020. In March 2016, Wikipedia checked the page and found issues in guideline requirements. There are a few problems with relevance of sources and verified citations that still need to be addressed. The JRDA rankings and championships are kept up to date on this site.

Summary

I would say this page is "fine" it has a lot of information that could be useful. The information it provides is related and kept up to date. As addressed previously, this site has a few verification issues that need to be addressed and fixed before this can be considered a "good" site. For a more information about the rules and how to play you can go to the Roller Derby page.