User:ThatGuyInALittleCoat07

Bio

About me

My hobbies include fitness, reading, writing short stories whenever I have the chance, and drawing. I have always found staying active to be a huge part of my life, whether it be hiking, biking, running or playing basketball, sports are what I was surrounded with growing up. Reading and writing have played a major role in my life as well, ever since I was a kid I always had my nose in a book and would explore the realms of my imagination. Specifically, I have always loved horror stories, and still to this day take the time to write my own short stories based around horror/thriller. I come from a family of artists, I started off as a kid drawing little cartoons and recently started exploring the realms of shading and getting into more detailed and realistic features of drawing. An interesting fact I found was that in Northern Italy, drawing had initially become an independent art form towards the end of the 14th century.

My Wikipedia interests

If I'm active on Wikipedia in the future, I'll probably have more of a focus on ancient history or biographies based around famous scientists, inventors, etc. The world is a place of wonder and mystery, and many things to this day are still being researched and discovered; stemming from the ocean, ancient artifacts/sites, space, and much more. If given the opportunity to volunteer, my main accomplishment would be to spread the truth and to inform as many people as possible when it comes to these certain topics with nothing but accuracy and factual information. Many things have been slid under the rug, so my main purpose would be to share eye opening information and to hopefully broaden others perspectives.

Article Evaluation

I have recently started playing the harmonica and have always been interested in the instrument. I want Wikipedia's coverage of the harmonica to be as good as possible, and with such in mind, I visited the harmonica page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: verification of citations, grammatical errors, and original research.

Verification of citations

After reviewing the Wikipedia article on harmonica's, I noticed that reading through the history and early instruments section of the page contained a few citations that didn't exist upon clicking on it. Even if you were to click on a few links containing the location from certain historical figures that correlate with the article, such as Christian Messner and the location Trossingen, it would pop up with an article with little to few information and dead links included. Therefore, a few of the citations implemented within the article need verification.

Grammatical errors

Although much of the information seems to be reliable, I noticed a few grammatical errors and use of informal language. There were certain points throughout the article, such as a section that included the gain of popularity of the harmonica in Hong Kong and Taiwan, that had improperly/overused commas in a few sentences. Some sections of the article contained unneeded sentences, such as the section "parts" containing one sentence of the basic parts of the harmonica, even though each "part" had its own section and description. It seemed like a sentence and section that wasn't needed and could be removed without any negative impact of information.

Original research

A lot of the points within the article lacked quite a bit of citation and included information without evidence, or additional sites to obtain a better understanding of certain topics. An example that I found was reading through the section "wind-savers," a part of the harmonica, that didn't obtain some citation or additional sites. There was one topic that I wanted to learn a bit more about within that section, which was a discontinued design called the Hohner XB-40, however it lacked a citation or additional cite as to what it was.

Conclusion

Overall, I'd rate this article as "decent." Although a few minor errors, it contained information that was relevant and what I was looking for from a research standpoint. These errors include lack of verification of certain citations, grammatical errors, and original research. Overall, with a few fixes, I believe this article has great potential.