Kokonut82

Bio

About me:

I am a student returning to college a bit later in life. I enjoy the challenges college brings though, and am constantly striving to add more useful knowledge to my trivia addled brain. I enjoy many hobbies including long road trips with no particular destination, hiking sun dappled trails surrounded by old growth forests, cooking meals that are challenging to make, and many artistic endeavors. Road trips in particular seem to help my mental health, as they allow me to get in touch with my own feelings. A long road trip allows you to experience a new schedule and a new way of living, even if it is only for a few days. These experiences can have long lasting effects on mental health, including increasing self confidence.

My Wikipedia interests:

I am not sure that I will be continuing to work on editing Wikipedia after I am finished with my class. However, if I do decide to continue here, my hope would be to contribute accurate and factual information to help fulfill other's thirst for knowledge. Wikipedia has been a useful tool in my own life, and the idea of helping others like me is appealing.

Article Evaluation

I have always had a fascination with ancient Egyptian culture, I have been studying it on my own for a good portion of my life. With that in mind I visited the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: the number of citations, the fact that the one external link doesn’t work, and most references weren’t linked, and the age of the citations and references.

Number of citations

I was disappointed to see that there are only two linked citations in the entire article. Despite there being seven references listed, only two being linked seems to be lacking. There are five other references listed and they are occasionally cited, but only by typed reference to the author's last name, not linked. Having a reference source mentioned, but not linked makes navigating the article more difficult, because I need to scroll down to see which book is being cited.

Broken link, and non-linked references

As I mentioned above, there are seven references listed. Only two of them are linked to pages with more information about them. I was able to Google the other five references and pull up further information, I would prefer to have them linked in the article itself. The one external link does not seem to work, despite trying several times. It brings up the internet archive site, the Wayback Machine, but no article loads.

Age of references

Of all seven references listed, they range in publish dates from 1992 to 2012. The most recent reference was a book written in 2012. I personally tried to search for more recent books and articles, but I was unable to locate any. From what I was able to find, it seems that no major news or revelation has come from this particular area in some time.

Summary

In summary, I believe this article could be improved by adding more citations, linking all the references so that a Google search of each book is not needed, and fixing the broken link. Since I was not able to find newer references either, I don’t think the date of the references is an issue. I feel this article is alright, but could be improved with some minor changes.