User:Aphrodite27

Bio

About me

My name is Jessica I live in Washington with my parents, my brothers and my sister. I also have several pets including 1 dog, 2 cats and 4 fish. My favorite animal is the Ocelot. The Ocelot is found extensively in South America, Central America, Mexico, and some parts of southern US. My favorite colors are silver and green. One thing that I enjoy is poetry, I enjoy both reading and writing poetry in my spare time.

My Wikipedia interests

I think Wikipedia is a great resource for facts and i would like to continue to use Wikipedia to learn new things about topics I am familiar with and topics that are new to me. I would also consider editing pages on topics I know a great deal about and maybe even crate a couple pages myself on topics I find meaningful. I also my check pages i have visited to check facts and make changes if i find a fact to be wrong or to make sure some facts that sound wrong have citations so i can double check them.

Article Evaluation

As a child I was always into nature, I loved animals, plants and just being in the outdoors.  My favorite was animals, cats especially and they remain to be my favorite to this day.  I enjoy doing research on wild cats to learn about them, the Ocelot is my favorite wild cat. I visited the Ocelot page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: Fact citation, Irrelevant sections and lack of information that should be there.

Let us continue with a discussion on irrelevant sections I found in this article.  The second set of the article starts out with  a relevant topic of where the name of the Ocelot came from or possibly could mean but then just throws in a list of other names for it that really are not relevant to that part of the article.  Another irrelevant part is the last part f the article that starts out talking about Ocelot interaction with humans in the Incan and Aztec civilizations and how they were depicted in art and legend.  As you get further though it starts talking about pet ocelots and who had pet ocelots which I don’t find as relevant if you are looking for information about the Ocelot.

While reading through this article I noticed that many of the facts with citations were restated later with other citations that were more recent than the previous citation although the fact was the same.  I noticed that some of the citations go as far back as the 1990’s and then others are as recent as 2015 even though both citations are for the same fact but both citations are listed at different times the fact is mentioned.  I cannot tell if any of the facts with multiple citations at multiple parts in the article are true because the recent citations and the not so recent citations are for the same fact which leads me to believe that the article it self is not up to date since the citations range in date and the most recent citation date is in 2015.

As I was reading thru this article, I noticed that there is not a lot of information on the page at all.  The article consists mainly of facts are restated several times throughout the article.  Since there are so many facts that are restated many facts are short clips of information with no explanation.  The article, for example, says that since the Ocelot is a threatened species there are conservation actions being taken but it does not get any more specific than that.  

In conclusion this article has much room for improvement.  The areas that need improvement are fact citation that is reliable, the irrelevant sections and sentences and the lack of information on the page. This article if very short and is mostly the same facts started over and over with different citations each time and little bits of irrelevant information mixed in so if I was looking for information on the Ocelot, I would not use this article.