Mtkessler

Bio

About Me

I'm a college student in the United States, and I am going to school to become a Nurse. I love to read, but I am not very great at writing or telling my own stories. The books I like to read are mainly fiction, or sometimes nonfiction if I want to read something a little different that day. When reading fiction books it activates parts of the brain that are not activated while reading nonfiction, for example smells. Some other things to know are I have two cats, and two dogs. I just got a new kitten, his name is Leo. He doesn't really get along with my other cat, but surprisingly he does get along with the dogs. You'd think it would be the other way around.

My Wikipedia Interests

If I end up working on content in the future I will probably work on other Wikipedia pages. By working on other pages I mean making sure that these pages are accurate and nonbiased. As a volunteer I would hope to accomplish making as many pages as I can as nonbiased, and accurate as I can. To do so I would do my research to have sources that can be trusted and cite them onto the pages when used.

Article Evaluation

Folk dance has been interesting to me for awhile now. I love to learn about what the dances were like of the ethnic groups that used them. I want Wikipedia to have better coverage on folk dances, so it can be as good as it can be, and so I visited the folk dance page. There were three things that I thought could be better, such as the lack of citations, many articles that do not exist, and its lack of details/information on dances.

Citations

There are very few citations for this article, in total only 3. The articles that are cited, are cited within the article to backup information, and seem to be reliable sources. But this article needs more citations to backup their information, and they need reliable sources so the article can be accurate. There are many external links, but they seem to not backup much of the information that is in the article.

Links Don't Exist

Many Wikipedia pages are linked to this page, but many are highlighted in red and when clicked on don't exist. The amount of Wikipedia pages that don't exist in this article is concerning because the listed content could be untrue. If the article were to have links to reliable sources to show that the dances listed in red were actual dances then this article would be more accurate and reliable to those researching folk dance.

Details/Information

I have noticed in the article it lists dances from cultures all across the world, but does not detail what the dance is or how it came to be. On very few of them it says little details about some. It does link the dances to other Wikipedia pages and some of those pages could be reliable. But we want this article to be reliable so in adding more detail and information about each of the dances makes it more interesting, and if sources are linked makes it more accurate.

Summary

Overall, this page was not very good. The information in the article is not reliable because of the very few sources that are linked. The background, and section titled Europe seems to be complete, but does not have any sources linked other than Wikipedia pages and those can be unreliable. In those two sections there are no citations linked, so with no evidence to back any of their information up it is unreliable. Throughout the article after the section titled Europe, there are other sections that are titled country names that have no detailed descriptions about all of the dances or sources to back up that information except for about two.