JayGCruz

Bio

About me

I am a current freshman college student at Everett Community College in Everett, Washington. I am from Arcadia, Florida and moved to Washington at a young age where I have resided since then. I have a passion for the environment and desire to one day obtain a career that helps me learn to prepare and educate to battle climate change.

My Wikipedia activities

I have used Wikipedia for a long time, at least since middle school. Throughout middle and high school, we weren't allowed to use Wikipedia as it was deemed unreliable by instructors. I always enjoyed reading articles about many topics on Wikipedia because there is just so much information that people over time have shared with us. I hope to work on content over a period of time here, so that I can learn more about how Wikipedia works and how to use it. I hope to accomplish, as a volunteer, to be able to provide the world with as much information as needed. As the world continues to learn through technology, I feel that we as a society we should be able to help each other out. We continue to learn new things every day and it's convenient to provide information so that we can all stay in the same pace and learn at the same time.

Article Evaluation

I visited the Climate Change article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: citations, article updates, and article structure.

Citations

Each source that is cited in this article is appropriate and reliable for readers to visit. Majority of the sources, if not all, are from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICPP), the United Nation's body for assessing the science related to climate change. This source is very reliable because it serves as a body for the United Nations, an intergovernmental organization and cooperation that serves to maintain world peace, health, and security. An organization website, especially ones that associate with many different countries, is trustworthy for collecting information on topics like climate change.

Article updates

The article is up to date, with the last piece of information dated from September 2022 regarding recent California droughts and the changes of different terms like "climate change", "global warming", "climate heat", etc. Other article changes from September 2022 were made for fixes on factual accuracy, misinterpreted citations, and grammar formats. This is understandable, as there are many different views on climate change and more environmental impacts are developing each year, so it's important to keep record of these changes.

Article structure

Since this article is titled "Climate Change", it definitely makes sense to expect tons of information about global warming and the greenhouse effect. In fact, the article has information about political activity and policy changes regarding reducing carbon emissions and alternative energy uses. However, the term "climate change" refers to all temperature and environmental changes that is threatening the Earth's health. I noticed that viewpoints on climate change effects, aside from global warming, are under-represented. There certainly needs to be more information, political and factual, on other climate change problems like water pollution, wildlife endangerment, and human health.

Conclusion

I rate this article "good and accurate". It covers a lot of information about the topic and provides scientific data from reliable sources. Each citation is reliable and accurate, and the article is being carefully kept up to date. Although it could've provided more information on other climate change matters, it still provided enough including links and date tables. This is a good article for anyone researching climate change.