User:Cahager

About Me
I'm a high school student taking general education classes through running start at my local community college. I've been active in team sports most of my life. Being involved in team sports can improve academic performance. I'm interested in equal rights movements, romance movies, and the development of gene therapy. I plan to travel after my schooling to gain more knowledge of other cultures and experience different ways of life.

My Wikipedia Interest
I'll be using Wikipedia for my English class for right now. In the future I'd be interested in editing and improving Wikipedia sites that include topics such as musical artist and modern art influences.

Article Evaluation
I’ve always had an interest in the world of body modifications. Specifically, the art of tattooing and its different styles. As I was reading through the Tattoo article on Wikipedia, I came across one of my favorite styles called Old School Tattoos. I visited the Old School Tattoo page on Wikipedia and found three aspects worth commenting on its absence of any information on the origin or characteristics, its lack of reliable citations, and the overall structure and content of the page.

Absence of Information
As I was reading through this article, I noticed right away its lack of overall information on the type of style it is. There was no information on where it originated as it did in its sister article on Wikipedia, New School tattoos, which is referenced in the Old school tattoos under See Also. There is very minimal information on the characteristics of the style. The only other information on this page was a list of Old School artists and an unreliable list of old school motifs.

Lack of Citations
It’s very clearly stated by Wikipedia itself, by using a pop-up, that the section of this page headed Common Old School Motifs, is not cited what so ever. At the end of this section, a statement reads, “Oftentimes, these tattoos had significance behind them for those in the Armed Forces. For instance, getting a tattoo of an anchor represented "stability." And is citied. Upon looking at the source cited, I found no correlation between the Armed Forces and them getting symbolic tattoos anywhere in the source making this an unreliable statement.

Overall Structure
The structure of this page could use some obvious work. More reliable information about the topic needs to be added but it still added important information, such as several artists who had a large influence on Old School tattooing and examples of types of tattoos you would see done by a traditional artist.

Summary
After analyzing the page Old School Tattoos, I've concluded that this page gives very minimal information on the topic itself and is overall not the most reliable, as most of the facts are not cited.