User:Daisyduck01

Bio

About me

Welcome to my user page where I talk about myself.... I am a college student living big in the great pacific north west, nobody does it like us and nobody ever will! I love it here truly, I love the rain, the storm, the fog, and of course I love the sunshine. Religion is a big part of my life and is the meaning of life for me, I am a Muslim woman and I am so blessed to be born in a family that put me on the right track before I even knew there was a track. I enjoy making my family happy and being of use to people, and helping out whenever I can. Watching society flourish and succeed especially in my community is a feeling I will never get sick of. I appreciate spending time with family friends, all my relatives live overseas in Europe and west Asia so it gets lonely sometimes but I am grateful for my friends all of which are of the utmost highest quality of people.

My Wikipedia interests

I am interested to see what Wikipedia has to offer about history and religion, all my life I was told not to use Wikipedia as a credible source for information, and although there is some truth to that there is not a website like Wikipedia that is well known as this one where anyone can publish anything and make edits anywhere, that being said it really is a double edged sword you can be saved from bias or you can be fooled by it. Here in the US Muslims are a minority so there is copious amounts of misinformation everywhere given the agenda of the west and pure ignorance along with idiocrasy. Not only that but I am also of the Shia sect which is also a minority within the Muslim faith which there is also tons of misinformation about backed by the west and taken further by the extremists of both sides. I am very interested to read up on this topic and hopefully be able to communicate with editors to learn something and maybe even teach something. And now for one of my favorite quotes from Imam Ali (a.s.) “Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.”

Article evaluation

There is such almost unexplainable fascination with the color Blue, more specifically for me Caeruleum or Egyptian blue. This color apart from all invokes such feelings that can not be replicated by any other no matter how you place it. "I visited the Egyptian Blue article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: scarcity of citations, out of date sources and underrepresentation.

Scarcity of citations

As I was reading the article, I found many “facts” but not as much sources. The information must come from somewhere otherwise it would not be on the page considering it isn’t general knowledge. The last little line detached from the paragraph titled definitions was not at all cited and because it is detached from the paragraph with the citations it is indicated that it is not a part of the sources cited in the paragraph above.

Out of date sources

The sources used to cite the information in the article is fairly old ranging from late 90’s to late 2000s, many of them are textbooks which is great but I know textbooks are constantly being updated almost every year and it could be the same information or different or worded better.

Underrepresentation

I wish the article talked about why the color blue was important to Egyptians and what it symbolized. The color blue is sought out to depict their royalty and gods with the necessary reverence for the Egyptians.

Conclusion

I think the article is great but it could be tweaked, I can tell much effort and time was put into it which I appreciate and many who want to research the color would find very useful. An overall revamp of the article would look splendid a little updating of information a citation, more information of the background on the use of the color, and attaching a citation to abandoned facts.