SunnyvaleRoolz6

Biography

I am a musician and student who has relocated to the Pacific Northwest from the mountains of western Montana. I began taking music lessons at an early elementary age, although classical music was hardly something that graced my ears due to my ever growing love for hardcore and heavy metal that I developed at a far too young of an age. I enjoy the outdoors as well, with skateboarding on urban concrete and pavement being the dominant form of activity. I also have an appreciation for books and all things learning, hence my current studying of English and literature.

I am new to the idea of being an editor to Wikipedia but I am grateful that college gave me the opportunity to do so. I used and still use Wikipedia extensively as a part of my music education when it comes to learning about new genres of music and bands. In the future of my Wikipedia editing career, I would like to share information on lesser known bands and subgenres that are fast rising in popularity within the underground scene.

Article Review

As a fan of all forms of metal and hardcore, I frequently visit Wikipedia pages to find information on new bands that I discover. I quickly became a fan of the genre known as deathcore, even forming my own band. One of my greatest influences was and still is Oceano. However, when I visited their Wikipedia page, I found three aspects of it worth commenting on: dead links, bias of the sources, and information left out in certain sections of the band's page.

Dead links

The references are clearly laid out at the bottom of the page and are easy to follow. However, when I went to check the source that claimed Oceano's album Contagion had landed on the Independent Albums chart, the link contained a blank screen with no information on where the band's record had charted. I then looked further into the site and clicked on the band's biography that the site had listed, only to find a "Page Not Found" screen coming up next.

Bias of the sources

I looked at the sources of the page to make sure the citations were accurate to the information presented. When reading these, the content of some of the sources seemed to be of a financial viewpoint, playing on the band's then current dilemma of going on a hiatus to seemingly make the reader consider to go to a festival that Oceano was playing at.

Information on the page

In the history section of Oceano's page, nothing is written about the band's activities after they signed to Sumerian Records, even though it is revealed in the discography section of the page that they released their first album with Sumerian Records, which is called Revelation. There should be something written about the release of the album on the history section to make the page as up to date as possible and to be a more comprehensive work.

Summary

In conclusion, the Oceano band page is okay with a fair amount of the band's history being present as a positive to the page. The page falls short on recent album news, which can limit information that can benefit a reader. The page also struggles with the bias of some of the sources, and for dead links relating where the band's records have charted. I would like to improve the Oceano band page, so I made a comment on the talk page that suggests the information on Revelation (their most recent album) is put into the history portion of the page to make it as up to date as possible.