NATARK11

Bio

About me

Some of my favorite things to do outside of my home are playing American football, skateboarding, and camping. Football is an amazing sport that creates strong bonds with your teammates. You cannot successfully play this sport without all eleven men on the field doing their jobs, this awesome game requires trust, grit, and dedication. When you put it all together, you can not only become a high level athlete, but also a respectable adult in the outside world. Skateboarding requires time, dedication, and repetition. It is a sport that can make you feel like quitting or giving up, but the reward of landing a trick that you've been working on for so long is worth it. Camping is a great method of relaxation and escape, you are able to see new things and connect with nature. The challenge of being alone or working with a partner out in the wilderness all pays off when you get to experience the sights, sounds, and smells of the great outdoors. The vitamin D from spending more time in natural sunlight is said to uplift a persons mood.

My Wikipedia interests

When using Wikipedia in the future, I see myself wanting to learn more about things that match my interest. This could involve pages that have U.S sports teams history or pages that talk about certain camping areas around the world. Also I enjoy researching about people that I look up to, this could be a famous athlete, actor, author and so much more.

Article Evaluation

Growing up I've always enjoyed watching the NFL and have found interest in certain players over the years. For a long time my favorite player was Doug Baldwin Jr. because I always saw him as the underdog who seemed to always surprise people with his amazing catches and stats. He was a great pass catcher for the Seattle Seahawks from 2011 to 2018 peaking in 2015 with a 1,069 yard season and finishing with 14 receiving touchdowns. I visited the Doug Baldwin article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: Citation links, if the information was up to date, and if the tone was neutral throughout.

Citation links

The article is full of citations throughout and all of them lead to references. Not all of the references seem to be super reliable, but there are a lot that are. The text is full of links to other Wikipedia pages too so you are able to gain further information about topics that you may not have known about before. Overall the citation links can use a little bit of work but Id say that there is a good variety of them at this point.

Up to date

One thing that is very important in reliable Wikipedia pages is that they are up to date with all of the information. This page was edited very recently so I know that it is being maintained, but also it has full statistic lists for all of the years that Doug Baldwin played in the NFL and at the college level. The article has information about him from early years of his life all the way to his retirement from the NFL which makes me think that it is a pretty maintained and up to date source.

Neutral

In a good article the content and tone must be neutral in order to give the most information to the reader. This article does a great job of staying neutral throughout and keeps all of the sections full of information only. After reading the article you might find more interest in Doug Baldwin because of how cool of a football player he was throughout the years. But as far as the information goes it does a good job at neither taking a positive or negative tone and maintains a neutral one instead.

Summary

Overall Id rate this page as "good". The page is full of information about this player through his years at the college level and at the NFL level and all the information seems to be fully accurate to my knowledge. The article has many citations to reliable sources but as with most Wikipedia articles there are some that aren't as reliable as the others. I think that each section of the page is in depth with information describing a certain season or stat line. With many articles and this one included, there is some work that needs to be done in order to make the page more resourceful and that can include, more reliable sources, and more depth in some of the sections.