Supawanee Gandall

Bio

I come from Phuket which is located in the south of Thailand and was born in 1988. I came to the United States in 2011 to improve my English for continuing my career in my hometown. My dream career was a tourist guide; I wanted to inform the tourists around the world who came to Thailand about the beautiful Thai culture and tradition. However, my life has changed and same for my dream career. Now I pursue an Associate in Technical Arts in Medical Assistant Degree. I hope that after I graduate from college, I can use my knowledge to help people in the community with health and hygiene. In my free time, one of my favorite hobbies is cooking. I watch Master Chef television series because I can use my Thai cooking techniques to adapt the ingredients that I find in the supermarket around my neighborhood.

I have never used Wikipedia in any courses for school before. However, after I start to learn, sign up, and have an account on Wikipedia; I agreed that Wikipedia is very diverse with languages, content, and resources. I can see myself writing a couple of subjects which are about healthcare and cooking homemade Thai food with my own recipes to inspire other Wikipedians who share interest and information with each other over a long term.

Article critique

I studied history about my hometown, Phuket, since I was in middle school. It is a very amazing feeling to learn the lifestyles of my old ancestors. I had also participated in field trips to visit many of the old buildings around Phuket which were built hundreds of years ago. I learned the beginning of our culture, traditions, and festivals as well. A long time ago, Phuket was one of the most important ports in Thailand and many visitors came from different countries to trade products with local people. Moreover, some people came to start their new lives here. I visited the Old Phuket Town page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: the unreliable resources, the incomplete information, and the assorted citations.

Unreliable resources

I found several errors with links on this page. The links for old buildings of tourist attractions that show the pictures or the histories, have not been created yet.  As a Wikipedian, I want to see the pictures of the old town that was built a hundred years ago, which match with the detail that the writer wrote on the page. Furthermore, the Talk page did not have any Wikipedian participation at all. So, the Old Phuket Town page made me think this page cannot be trusted because I did not see any links that help support the details of the writer.

Incomplete information

I read all information about the Old Phuket Town and clicked through all links that appeared on the page. I realized that Phuket city has very colorful cultures and architectures. Many people around the world came to trade tin because Phuket is one of the cities where they had a lot of tin-mining. However, the writer did not mention about the rubber being a very popular economy plant for the travelers as well. Moreover, Phuket city was one of the important ports between India and China. The Old Phuket Town has a very famous building design that attracted travelers from around the world to come and visit Phuket city; it is called the Sino-Portuguese Architecture. The beautiful architecture is a heart of the Old Phuket Town, but the information has not been linked on this page.

Assorted citations

The references on the page were not citations because there are only two links on the page: the first one linked to a different page which was not related to the article, and the other was a hotel booking advertisement for the city.  The citations are very important for the history article because the links that appeared can help the reader get some ideas from the article. In addition, the writer needs to consider the citation to put in the article to make sure that the information is useful for the reader.

Conclusion

The layout of the Old Phuket Town is well organized. The page had separated all topics which made it easy to read. However, in my opinion, the content on the page such as resources, details, and citations need to be improved.  As a result of visiting the Old Phuket Town page, I did not trust it or get enough information about old town in Phuket.