Smashby87

Bio

About Me

I am currently a high school student in the running start program in the Pacific Northwest. Most of my time is filled with either work or school, but the free time that I do get is probably spent doing some sort of music. It's my biggest hobby. When it comes to genres of music, I don't discriminate. I listen to everything whether it be mainstream pop, rap, R&B, classical music, K-pop, etc. I also sing and play the piano. Some of my other hobbies include reading, video games, and theater. I think that it is important to have many hobbies. Research shows that they can have very positive effects on one's life, like reducing stress levels and preventing depression.

My Wikipedia Interests

I created this Wikipedia account for a class I'm taking and intend to use it primarily for that purpose. However, I don't intend on deleting the account after the class is finished. Since I am so invested in music, and therefore that entire section of pop culture, I can definitely see myself participating in Wikipedia articles of such subjects.

Article Evaluation

As stated in my bio, I am very invested in music. Just this past summer, an all-female music group called BLACKPINK from South Korea released a song called "How You Like That" and it immediately became a worldwide hit. Because of this, I visited the How You Like That article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: the article's grammar, completeness, and sources.

The article's grammar is pretty good; it's what I'd expect for an article about a song that dominated the charts worldwide. But there was something that I thought could be improved. In the first paragraph of the article, the author states, "The track was written by Danny Chung and Teddy Park, with the latter as well as R. Tee and 24 credited as arrangers, it was produced by Teddy." This is a run-on sentence. It can be fixed by changing the comma before "it was produced by Teddy" to a period and capitalize the "i" in "it," or just change it to a semicolon.

As I was reading the article I also noticed that there was something that could make the article more complete. In the "Accolades" section of the article, there is a table that shows the world records for "How You Like That." While the song did break some records, it's record-holder status was short-lived. All of the five records shown have recently been broken by BTS's song "Dynamite." Adding the fact that the song no longer holds those records would help the article become more clear and could also help prevent people from misinterpreting the information given.

For the most part, the article's sources looked pretty good, but there were two things that stood out to me. The first thing was that on the first source listed, there is a "cite error" message in red. The cite error says that "the named reference "bbc" was defined multiple times with different content." That is probably something that should be fixed. Secondly, there is no citation for the name of the studio. I'm pretty sure that the information there is correct but a citation should still be added to help with the article's credibility.

Overall, I think the article is pretty good. It is by no means perfect, but it definitely does what it's meant to do. Although there might be some mistakes in the areas of grammar, completeness, and reliable sources, it makes up for that by being an article full of accurate information on this award-winning song.