User:NotSaraEdmondson

About Me

Thank you for taking the time to visit my page! My name is Sara and I am currently a running start student taking classes at Everett Community College. A fun fact about myself is that I was born in China. I have grown up in Washington for almost my entire life and I hope one day I get the chance to travel back to my birthplace. Two of my favorite hobbies are singing and gymnastics. While I no longer do choir, singing was and still is a big part of my life. I have done choir for nine years, six of those years being with Seattle Children's Chorus. Towards the end of my choir years I started becoming more interested in gymnastics. One of my friends convinced me to start coming to classes with her, and I ended up really enjoying it. Eventually I was invited to join a gymnastics team and I had to choose between doing choir or gymnastics. I decided it was time to try something new, and for the past six years I have been doing gymnastics competitively.

Contributions I would make to Wikipedia would mostly likely be gymnastic related. While going through Wikipedia I noticed there was a page for the list of famous gymnasts, but the list was incomplete and a lot could still be added to it. I also found another page about gymnastics in the United States, there was a section talking about all the types of programs but was missing a couple programs. Both of these articles are topics I am interested in and would enjoy adding to them.

Article Evaluation

For this essay, I wanted to write about something I am interested in. I thought about it for a bit and the first thing that came to my mind was gymnastics. I have done gymnastics for a couple of years now and have enjoyed it ever since. Because of this, I decided to try and find a page related to gymnastics. I visited the list of gymnasts page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: completeness, how up to date it is, and how more citations could be added.

Completeness

At the top of this article, you will find it says that “this list is of those who are notable in their chosen discipline.” I think the article needs to not only clarify but also define what it means to be notable in a discipline. Anybody could add a gymnast they think is notable, but there might be people who disagree with their opinion. When I read through the talk page I noticed somebody mentioned people might not know why some gymnasts are included while others might not be. Not only that but I saw somebody say they removed a gymnast from the list due to not being famous or known. With a definition, this might clear up any confusion a reader might have and would make contributions to the article easier.

Out of Date

The people who have contributed to this page have done an amazing job. The list has developed very well over the years, but there are always things that could be added to it. The gymnastics world is constantly changing and there is always news coming out about gymnasts making history. Because of this, the list needs to be updated frequently. There are a couple of gymnasts I think should be added to the list but as I mentioned before, the definition of a “notable gymnast” is still unclear.

Citations

While the page has done a great job with citing sources, I think it is worth pointing out there are still a decent amount of citations needed for some of the gymnasts. A couple of countries such as Italy, Finland, and the Soviet Union lack the citations for their gymnasts. Other than that the page has done well by not only attaching a link to the Wikipedia page for each gymnast but their profile on the Federation of Internationale de Gymnastique website as well. In the past, the talk page mentioned a lot of the gymnasts were “redlinked” meaning they did not have a Wikipedia page dedicated to them yet. When you look at the page now you do not see a single redlinked gymnast, which I think is great knowing the page has come so far.

Summary

After reading and evaluating this article, although the Wikipedia page was put together really well, there are still changes and additions that could be made. The list is pretty large but there are still gymnasts missing from the list. If the article clarified what it means to be a “notable gymnast” the list would be a lot better and figuring out which gymnasts to add with be easier. All of the gymnasts that have been added have Wikipedia pages already dedicated to them. The problem is that not all of them have citations. If the article were to be improved with these three ideas, the page would be so much better.