User:Colemardesich
[[I'm]] (1997-Present) a freshman and full time student at Everett Community College. I have no idea of my major or where I would like to transfer to after two years here. In my free time, I enjoy being active and spending time with my friends by playing various sports and going on hikes. As a league, we are also very competitive in fantasy football. I'm an avid Spotify user and love to make playlists and find new music of different genres. I'm also a part time employee at the Port of Everett and a Young Life leader for the freshman guys at Everett High School.
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Article Critique
[edit]I visited the Russ (rapper) page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: it's accuracy, it's citations, and it's missing achievements.
Accuracy
[edit]As I was looking at the list of singles in the discography section of the article, I noticed there were several songs missing from the list. Although there are 15 singles listed, there were 13 other singles made in 2015 and 19 other singles made in 2016 posted through Spotify alone. Also, in the first paragraph it exclaims that Russ has reached over 40 million listens on Souncloud since his emergence in 2014. Where this is most certainly true, that number is really looking more around over 195 million listens today.
Missing Achievements
[edit]I know that many Wikipedia pages have sections that emphasize the achievements made by the subject of the page, and even though the time was taken to write a section on this page about Russ' plagiarism lawsuit, there isn't much said about the successful side of his career. For example, last year Russ achieved a long term goal by making the Forbes list. Russ posts his music through Spotify, Soundcloud, and Youtube. I feel that it would be a helpful resource to have all three of these sites tracked to show how many listens he has gotten on each platform over the course of his career.
Citation
[edit]There are a pretty generous number of citations listed throughout this page, but if you look at some of the websites that these citations are linked to, you can see that a lot of these websites are not very reliable resources. When citations like this are included on a page, it can make readers feel that the page as a whole isn't reliable. There is also an odd placement of citation as the footnotes for the peak chart positions for the single "What They Want" are at the top of the table instead of the row of the song.
Summary
[edit]Two years ago I maybe would have rated this page as "okay" considering that I only knew one or two of his songs and nobody that I knew had known that he even existed. But to see the incredible inclination in Russ' success today, I would have to rate this page as "very poor". I was personally shocked when I first visited the page to see how little information there was about him. This page has yet to be updated with correct statistics and songs. Also, majority of the citations lead to unreliable websites. Both of these things are contributions to the belief that this page as a whole isn't a reliable source of information. I would hope to see it soon be updated with reliable information and more about Russ' success in his career as there is a lot to be talked about.