User:AllSmilez4U/sandbox

Article assessment
My mission trips to Haiti have created a deep passion for the culture and the country. While integrating with the locals and growing relationships I found it necessary to participate in traditional ways. Public transportation is a great way to become submerged with the people in their everyday lives. I’ve experienced that the common options were paying for a motorcycle driver or ride in a tap tap. I visited the Tap tap page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: my discovery of inactive links, the “Travel warnings” section seems limited and there is no information on the average tap tap fare.

Inactive links
Overviewing the page, it seems that the amount of citations are proportionate to the information provided. With further investigation I found that two of the five links are currently inactive. I tried to go to the first reference link provided and then deleted part of the URL which led me to the original article about Haiti, but I was unsuccessful to find any mention of tap taps.

Travel warning
I feel the sentence in the section titled “Travel warning” is bias and without enough citation. “Many developed countries” to me feels that the statement should be supported by three or more “developed countries”. Yet I find it was then followed by one sentence to represent Canada’s view then another sentence for the United States’ view. The sentence about Canada is cited, the link is active, and the page is current this can not be said about the statement for the United states’ view. Although the statement for the United States was also cited, the link is inactive.

Fare
With the understanding that the cost of public transportation can fluctuate I think some information would give the reader a peak into Haiti’s current economics. This subtopic could lead to further Wikipedia pages including Haitian Gourdes. If it was to give costs per town and city it could include links to the corresponding locations.

End of Mission
To conclude I am very pleased to find a Wikipedia page about tap taps. I appreciate the few photos that were included and will say from personal experience they are accurate in appearance. I feel readers can get a basic concept of a tap tap from the information provided. With some constructive criticism, this page can be improved. Correcting the links or finding new sources would give the Tap tap page more reliability. Reviewing the “Travel warning” section would encourage a more neutral and accurate representation. Like any Wikipedia page, adding a key subtopic such as the average tap tap fare would grow the article in a well-balanced way.