User:ItsWikinTime

Bio

About me

I'm a college student and aspiring video game programmer. Some of my hobbies are gaming, reading fantasy/sci-fi, and hiking in the local mountains. I hope to better my skills as a programmer so that one day I can make my dream game, which is something between the older Final Fantasy games (1-6) and Dwarf Fortress. My family owns a brown and white Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dog named Radcliffe, and he is the silliest little guy. Cavaliers are small dogs, averaging 12-13 inches tall.

My Wikipedia activities

I most likely won't do much on Wikipedia itself, but I somewhat frequently make edits to the fan-run wikis of various video games I play. If I do end up making edits here, they will either be basic grammar adjustments or also video game related.

Article Evaluation

Video game speedrunning is something that has always fascinated me since I first discovered it at around 2013. Speedrunning a video game simply consists of the goal to complete a video game in the shortest amount of time possible, sometimes even using game-breaking glitches to do so. I love seeing how people have made even the most seemingly well-crafted video games into fast-paced spectacles to behold in wonder and awe. I visited the speedrunning article on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its extensive use of citations, its currency, and its over-inclusion of some content.

Citations

There page boasts 61 different citations, with most being interviews or articles from (generally) respected video game journalism websites such as Polygon or TheGamer. From my own reading, I couldn't see anything that required a citation that did not have one already.

Currency

Generally, the currency of the page is very recent, as the majority of important information is from 2017-present, and most statistics are up to date as of 2022. The only times the page references information older than 2017 is when talking about some of the roots of speedrunning or various cheating scandals.

Content over-inclusion

While the inclusion of various different examples of cheating is nice, the "Cheating" section of the page features too heavily on cases where cheating occurred and not what the cheating methods actually consisted of. These unnecessary segments of information could very well be their own page of various different cheating scandals and what their effect on the speedrunning community was instead of being sandwiched in-between more relevant and important information.

Conclusion

Overall, I would call this a very well written and refined page. The information provided is easy to understand and paints a good picture of the speedrunning scene, and the frequent use of citations and recent examples is outstanding. While I do believe that the "Cheating" section could be shortened down, it doesn't detract too much from the reading experience.