User:Thatdudezz

Bio

About me

I’m a student at Everett Community College. I’m a very big football fan. I follow the sport very heavily both in college and the NFL although I’m mainly a Seahawks fan and a Oregon Ducks fan. I became an Oregon Ducks fan because when I was starting to get into football Chip Kelly was still there and his offense with LaMichael James running for 1805 yards, kept me watching.

My Wikipedia activities

My main interest in Wikipedia is the ability to freely edit information without being signed in. I think the fact that the site isn’t a mess with the editing ability anyone has is quite astonishing. If I end up working on content long term I would probably work on citing sources.

Article evaluation

One of my favorite games of all time Counter-Strike: Global Offensive so I thought that this would be a good article to evaluate. So, I visited the CS:GO article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: citations, professional scene, and the underrepresentation of the gameplay.

Citations

One thing that is noticeable right away about the article is the total number of citations. There are a lot of good citations with up to-date-articles that I clicked through and explored. As I went through a few in each section I found that one of the citations in CS:GO 2 section had linked to a Reddit post as their source for a claim made about the removal of content. By the time I went back to the article the next day that article had been change still with a similar sentiment but now linking to a IGN article.

Professional scene

As I was going through the article one of the main things I was if the write-up of the professional scene was written in a neutral tone. My impressions of this part of the article were quite good, as I read about different teams they each were given a fair shake and no teams were given more credit. This part of the article left me quite impressed and overall it was a good piece of information.

Underrepresentation of gameplay.

Probably my biggest complaint about the article was the lack of info about the game itself. The gameplay part of the article only consisted of 3 paragraphs, which is relatively small compared to other parts of the article that I would consider less important. When I went to the article I wasn't expecting there to be a large write-up about the gameplay, but I felt such an important part of game shouldn't be the smallest part of the article.

Conclusion

Overall, if I was grading the article I would give it a "B". It had a lot of good info from a lot of trustworthy sources that are constantly being updated and checked to make sure they are legitimate. I thought that the article was very neutral and gave things a fair shake, but I wish that an article about a game had more info about the gameplay.