User:H1234568

About Me
My name is Morgan, I am from Washington State and I have lived there my entire life. Some hobbies of mine include playing hockey, building computers and working out. I am most passionate about hockey, as I am pretty good because it is the main thing I do outside of school for most of the year. Some subjects in school I enjoy include meteorology and geology, as these would be something I would probably want to do as a job.

My Wikipedia Interests
I would say that my main interests on Wikipedia would be to help fix an article I cared about if something were to happen to it. I would also perhaps create or edit an article, for instance, Mount Stickney, a peak in Snohomish county, WA. It reaches around 5,320 feet (1621.5 meters) above sea level, it's a decent site to see. That would be an example of an article I would be happy to help edit.

Article Evaluation
Wikipedia articles in my opinion can be a great way to find trustworthy, non-biased information. With millions of articles in multiple different languages, you can find information on almost anything. However, with so many volunteers free to edit so many different articles there can still be false, biased, or misleading information. I have found an article that I feel is incomplete, but still an interesting article with fairly relevant information on the subject. I visited the "Goaltender (field lacrosse)" page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: citation, being up to date, and dead links.

Citation
Just by scrolling from top to bottom on this article it was apparent that here was no citation at all, there wasn't a single fact in the article that was cited with a source. From what I can gather, whoever wrote this either had a background playing or watching field lacrosse and had developed the knowledge and information in this article themselves, or they just forgot to add any sources that they used to back up their facts on the article. When I scrolled down to the references I found one link titled "MLL Awards", when clicking on this link I was brought to the "Major League Lacrosse" website, on that page was the 2018 Major League Lacrosse awards.

Age (not up to date)
Going off of what I said about the reference on this article, the 2018 Major League Lacrosse awards should have happened over a year ago right? They did, even the 2019 ones are long over. Obviously this page is old. There was a section in the article for external links, again, only one link, it brought me to a pdf for the NCAA men's lacrosse 2017-2018 season rules. As much as this article gives information about the lacrosse goaltender, the information just can't be utilized for research purposes, especially if the rules of NCAA (or any league for lacrosse) have changed regarding the goaltender.

Dead Links
Something I liked about this article was that it had a section called "Notable field lacrosse goaltenders" where it gave a list of wiki links to some highly thought of lacrosse goaltenders. The first half of this list gave relatively well done articles about different goaltenders, most even had citations and references. As I got to the second half of this list almost all of the links to the famous goaltenders sent me to an empty page, and one of them sent me to the wiki of a heavy metal guitarist (I could not find any indicator that he played lacrosse). I really liked the idea of having a list of some memorable goaltenders, and I think it would have worked really well if there were some reliable sources cited for these goaltenders, and not just an empty wiki link for the ones who don't have a wiki.

Conclusion
In terms of writing I believe that this article is fine, it stays on topic, and for the most part is grammatically correct. The main reason I saw this article being incomplete was not because of how the information was presented, but how it was gathered. There is really no way to tell if this information is accurate, especially considering there is no way to access this information in the first place. As someone who has a little experience with lacrosse, I personally feel that this information is correct even though it goes against Wikipedia's guidelines. After reading this, I believe I learned a little bit about goalies in lacrosse, just not in a way I could write about them.