User:JO88888888

BIO

I am a first year Running Start student in the state of Washington. I am currently enrolled in, English 101, Spanish, and Criminal Justice 101. A long-term passion of mine would be leadership. I have had an obsession with leadership since I was about thirteen years old.  I have been involved with ASB for five years now, continuing this year as one of the vice presidents at my community college. I also enjoy volunteering, especially when it comes to the youth in my community.  In my spare time, I contribute to an organization called FBLA. FBLA stands for "Future Business Leaders of America."

Through Wikipedia, I would be interested in creating/editing pages that retain information on non-profits. It is a topic that I would love to research, and it's also important to spread information about Non-Profits. I am also excited to in general, to learn more about Wikipedia itself and the ways people use it.

Article Review

People have many different factors that contribute to the way they make decisions. A main factor that can affect someone's decision making skills is normative social influence. Normative social influence is the way that people adhere to what the people around them are doing to be accepted by them. I visited the “normative social influence” page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on, its unfixed citation errors ( that were already commented) on, broad termed wording, and it’s messy citations.

Citations

On the “normative social influence” page, there were multiple “ citations needed” comments. I think the author should spend some time to review these notes and provide the changes needed. These notes were also added two years ago, so the original author is probably not going to make the changes. So another person will need to come in to make the changes.

Broad Terms

Throughout the article broad wording is used. Such as words like many, widely, often, and several. Using statistics instead of general terms would be beneficial to the understanding of the impact of normative social influence. It would also overall make the article appear more reliable and professional to it's readers.

Sources

In the citation section of the article, the layout is quite messy. There are missing pieces of information, such as page numbers. Also, the way that the citation are organized is confusing. If someone was trying to find the source that the writer used it would be difficult to trace them back without all of the necessary information.

Summary

Despite the pages flaws, I thought it was altogether well written. The language used in the page was easy to follow and the author included many examples to contribute to the readers understanding of normative social influence. That being said, I think the author or a contributor to the page still needs to go through and fix the citation errors, the broad terms should be switched to statistics or specifics, and the citations should be reorganized.