User:Slporter04

Bio

    About me
      I am a person who enjoys playing video games, doing art projects, and bowling. I enjoy many different genres of video games such as shooters, RPGs, MMOs, ect. Different art projects I partake in are things such as painting, knitting, crochet, and molding clay. As for bowling, I bowl professionally as a back-up bowler, meaning I throw my bowling ball with my right hand and it hooks to the right of the bowling lane as if I was bowling with my left hand.

    My Wikipeida Interests
      Some interests I have on wikipedia are people like Jason Belmonte, a two-handed bowler, and the different video game designing companies that are out there such as Avalanche, 505 Games, and more. I'd also like to do some research of my own and add onto different pages out there that I'm already interested, or maybe, if there's something that hasn't been worked on yet, I could maybe start something new!

Here's an interesting fact:

"there is only species of bird that is able to fly backwards – and that is hummingbirds!"

Article Evaluation

So, I was interested in whether there was any bias when it came to articles about politicians. Politics is a chaotic subject due to the fact that everyone has a different opinion on what different politicians do. So who might have the most bias in the most recent years? Donald Trump. I visited the Donald Trump article on Wikipedia and found three aspects worth commenting on: The bias of the writer(s), the bias of the articles used to gather data, and how up to date the article is.

The writer seems to use a lot of negative language when talking about the former president of the United States, using phrases such as, “...ordered a travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries…” and, “implemented a policy of family separations for apprehended migrants.” The author also writes, “...refused to concede defeat, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud…” These are a lot of negative things about Trump, and there is no positive things to combat it anywhere within the first portion of the article, even after that, there isn’t much written that I would consider “positive”, just facts about his life.

Now, we look at the articles used to gather information for this article. One of the sources is called, American Presidents: Greatest and Worst, and wouldn’t you know it, Trump is under the worst presidents box from 2018-2022. Another article from the New York Times is titled, Michael Cohen Says Trump Told Him to Threaten Schools Not to Release Grades, also does not give the best impression of our former president. One last article from Forbes titled, How Trump Is Trying—And Failing—To Get Rich Off His Presidency, written by Dan Alexander, doesn’t put Trump in a positive light. With all these articles, you can tell that they’re biased just based on the titles.

How about we look at how up to date this article is. It’s been revised about sixty-five times just in the month of January 2023. There are many people who have been revising and editing this article recently, probably more so within the last eight years. So I would say yes, this article is up to date, I mean, just today, January twenty-fifth, 2023, five people have edited and revised this article.

In the end, I believe that this article is indeed biased. The writer is biased against Trump and you can tell by the language they use throughout the article, along with the sources that were used. On the bright side, this article is kept very up to date. People are revising it almost everyday.