User:NorthwesternUnitedStates

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Bio

About Me

Hello, my name is Avery Riggs and I am currently a senior in high school. I discovered my passion for volleyball in sixth grade; I've played varsity volleyball at my high school since freshman year, but unfortunately I don't think there will be a season this year. I recently adopted a pit bull puppy named Lola, and she has the most carefree and loving spirit. Chemistry has always been one of my favorite subjects in school and that sparked an interest in me at a very young age. I plan on becoming a Registered Nurse, and then moving on to become a General Nurse Practitioner after I have paid off my debt, and seen many parts of the world.

My Wikipedia Interests

I have used Wikipedia as a resource for as long as I have been in school; It is so helpful when I need facts or background information for any sort of information I am needing. College applications are now open and the deadlines are coming up very soon, so I used many Wikipedia pages of the schools, along with their websites, to make sure that college is a great fit for me. The University of Washington page was of much help in finalizing my application decisions. What I really appreciate about Wikipedia is that they have over 260 languages that are supported. I believe that the diversity of languages is extremely important because the information that can be found through Wikipedia are helpful to everyone, not depending on what language they speak.

Article evaluation

Recently I have found an interest in rug making, as it is a growing trend on social media. I bought a "rug gun", which essentially makes tufting by hand ten times faster. I was unsure of what tufting really was and how it worked, so I used that as my focus for this evaluation. I visited the Tufting article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: it's lack of citations, it's lack of completeness, and the connections to other wiki pages that may be helpful for people that are new to tufting.

Citations

This article quite literally has no citations. Considering how short this article is, I could see how it would be somewhat difficult to add multiple citations, but there are places that I've found where citations could be included off of minimal research. This page is also missing a lot of information, and once more is added, citations should be added as well.

Completeness

The only information that is included on this wiki page is how tufting works and how to do it. There is nothing about how tufting was dated back to 5 BCE, based off the oldest existing Persian rug. Additionally, there is no recent information included. Tufting and rug making has gotten very popular recently because of how easy it is now. An addition of the different tools that could be used for tufting would have been extremely helpful, since rug guns are very expensive and not easily accessible. There is an obvious lack of information on this page, and I've found more facts that could be easily added within my minimal research.

Connections

The one part of this page that was helpful were the numerous links to other Wikipedia pages that were related to tufting. I was able to gather a better understanding by reading the Tufting (composites) page that was linked in the beginning. There are also links to knitting and fabric Wikipedia pages, but there still information missing about the tools used.

Conclusion

Overall this Wikipedia page was very much milk toast. There was no other information than what many people know already, and I would not have learned anything from it without doing my own research. There are no citations so there is no way to really know if the small amount of information is reliable.