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Bio

This is Brandon

About me

I am an only child, I have 7 cousins on my mom's side and 5 on my dad's side. After school, I like to hang out with my friends and play sports, usually football and basketball. After I graduate from my high school, I plan on getting a Siamese cat. In my free time I like to play video games on my ps4.   

Wikipedia interest

I like to read about the hyperloop transportation system. I also like to search for famous celebrities and learn new facts about them. If I end up working on content here over the long term, I will most likely just check for grammar and spelling mistakes and make sure the articles don't have misleading information.

Article Evaluation

I’ve always wanted to know more about my parents' childhood and  the culture they grew up in. Having Mandatory Visits of Vietnam on the country side every summer since I was a child. Hanging out at my grandparents' home, catching fish in the river in their own backyard. I visited the Northern Vietnam article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: it’s uncompleted table, under-represented information of culture, and the very little use of citations.

Uncompleted table

When looking through the article’s structure, there is a huge map of Vietnam’s region and there is a table with descriptions of the regions. There are several regions of Vietnam that are on the map but are missing in the table. I’ve noticed the ones that did get mentioned are usually the more populated areas, like the “Northeast Region” which has Saigon, the capital of Vietnam. Somehow, there are only three regions in the table out of eight. Someone should edit the table to add the rest of the information.

Under-represented

The majority of the article just talks about the regions that make up Northern Vietnam. It only mentions the culture and the people, which are a huge representation of Northern Vietnam. There is over-representation of the landscape description. This needs to be more information about the culture and of its people.

Scarce Citations

The article has several facts about the origins of Vietnamese culture, but only a couple of them have a citation and a source to back up the editor's claims. Surprisingly, there was only a single source used, which was a statistic for the population of each region used in the table. The source has been up to date as it was published back in 2015. It would be great to have more citations as you can check to see if the information is credible.

Conclusion

In general, I would say that this article is mediocre compared to other Wikipedia articles. The major focus of this article was to inform the reader about the landscape of Vietnam, which leaves other important cultural factors under-represented. The structure was easy to follow and descriptive but have missing crucial information on the table. And also could really use a good revision to add in citations needed and reliable sources to make the article whole.