User:Kathai27

Bio

About me

I am a passionate student-athlete who is always looking for a competition. Some hobbies of mine include Softball, Hiking, and listening to Music. I fell in love with the game of softball at a young age and haven't looked back since. It has become one of the biggest pieces of my life and is my favorite thing to do to get away from the everyday norms. Along with softball, music has always been a huge part of my life. Fun fact: in 2019 I listened to over 2050 hours of music. More recently among this Pandemic I got more into hiking with all the spare time I had. I got to see some beautiful views that are really once in a lifetime sights. It really felt beneficial to the mind and my body, I pushed it to limits I didn't even think I was capable of. Hiking actually helps reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and I can most certainly see why.

My Wikipedia interests

I hope to base my page off of more spiritual and deep mind involving ideas that I have done previous research on before. While these are not considered "factual" because like religion they cannot truly be proven, the concept of spirituality highly interests me and I would like to share with others the idea of it as well. It is truly amazing to see deeper than what is right in front of our eyes.

Article Evaluation

With all of the politics flying around these days I decided to look into the ones closer to home. I always knew Seattle was a more liberal dominant city, but I didn't know much about the politicians or the government who ran it. I visited the Government and Politics of Seattle page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its few unnecessary topic sections, the bare minimum of information in the Government section, but overall great citations and sources.

Unnecessary topics

I expected the page to be specifically about the government and its politics past and present, however as I scrolled through the overall quite short page, I had run into an entire section about the city's official nickname, flower, slogan, and song which seemed completely irrelevant to the politics of the city. This specific section just did not look like it belonged in this page, it would have fit better in the page just dedicated to Seattle itself. Along with that, there was another questionable section on Seattle's sister cities which took up about half of the page and there seemed to be no reason for it.

Government

A notably disappointing piece of the article was the lack of actual information in the government section when the entire article is based off of the government and it's politics. There was only one sentence in the entire section and besides the confusing grammatical errors that made it look like information was just missing, it really did not provide any useful knowledge. There was very little to no mention of any information on the courts, or the executive and legislative branch.neither was there any inclusion of specific locations of government stations within the city. I took a look at a few other major cities Government and Politics pages just to compare, and overall they had much more relevant information to offer. For example the Government of New York page included in depth information about their individual government branches, the current mayor and the mayor's duties, external offices, their courts, and even information on their community boards as well. There were many sections that all contributed to the whole topic of the page, and left me feeling much more educated on the New York City Government than I felt reading the Seattle one.

Citations

I did look into the provided resources at the bottom of the page, and I would like to positively comment on the in depth source citations, and the way they are reasonably up to date. I did not come across any dead links, and all in all I was able to find a lot of the missing information that should have been included in the article in the sites that were linked.

Summary

To conclude, I do think that more topic focused sections that go further into depth are necessary for the page to be offered as a more informational source, because at the moment it really lacks in a lot of areas. I did not feel as though I had researched anything about the politics and government of Seattle, it could have worked a lot better as a subcategory in the main Wikipedia page on Seattle.