JaredH2400

Bio

About Me

I have lived in the Pacific Northwest my whole life. I am currently a college student pursuing engineering. I love the outdoors and have a variety of hobbies that involve it like hiking, camping, snowboarding, and rock climbing. Other things about me is I play guitar and have a cat.

My Wikipedia Interest

I find Wikipedia an interesting source for finding information. I like how you're able to edit information if it's either bias or just straight up false. Also you don't need to wait for a publisher to provide more information anyone can do it[1]. The sort of things I would do long term is check or provide information on websites that are either too broad or doesn't have a strong point. Learning false information about a subject happens frequently so I hope to provide better information for users. I visited the Reliability of Wikipedia page on Wikipedia and they provided some good points on the subject.

Article Evaluation

I visited the Yoga as exercise page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: it's lack of reliable source, biased claims, and missing information.

Lack of reliable source

I've noticed throughout this article that there are a few statements or facts that have no supporting evidence. The section titled "Worldwide commodity" in particular has claims with no citations or supporting evidence. This article is very informational with a lot of history facts that have been referenced at the bottom of the page. Being an factual-based article though, there should be citations in such bold claims.

Biased claims

There are claims I've noticed in this article that seem to be more of an opinion rather than factual. Going along with its lack of reliable source in some areas, I've seen that some statements that maybe not everyone would agree on. With no citations backing it up, it comes off as biased. More citations for these claims would improve the reliability of this article.

Missing information

With my main reason looking at this page for the benefits of yoga and the different practices you can do, I didn't notice any statistics and studies that prove the benefits. The article mentions how yoga can improve your body in different ways, but doesn't have any factual evidence explaining how. A study or a personal story added in the article that explains the before and after would help understand the benefits of yoga.

Conclusion

I would rate this page overall a good background of information. The page does include some unreliable claims and missing information. But has a strong background and history about Yoga. With better citation and more information about the benefits of Yoga, this could help understand the use of Yoga even more.

References

1. Mackintosh, Wayne(21 March 2016). "Why use a wiki?"DS4OER.