User:Hacoley/sandbox

After completing the trainings and module for the week, I was surprised at how much I learned about Wikipedia. I was unaware just how much work went into writing and publishing Wikipedia pages and how many policies there are for editing and writing a Wikipedia page. All throughout middle and high school, my teachers constantly told our class how Wikipedia is not a reliable resource and we should not use it. They made it out to seem like anyone can edit Wikipedia whenever, with whatever information they wanted, and no one was there to monitor it. As of now, I am excited to start editing Wikipedia especially because I am coming in with very limited knowledge of Wikipedia. I have only ever used it to look things up here and there, but I have never actually edited a page in Wikipedia.The article I chose to evaluate is Iced coffee. In my opinion, this article is more under-developed. On a scale of 1-10 I would give it about a 3. Iced coffee is a pretty popular drink around the world, especially in the United States. According to the talk page, the article has a bias towards Cold Brew coffee, which is one way of brewing coffee. There are plenty of other methods of achieving iced coffee that do not include the cold brew method. There is a lot of bias in terms of which is the "better" method and how iced coffee tastes "better" with certain syrups. There is not much about brewing methods of iced coffee, as they are mentioned but not expanded upon and not linked to another page. There are a fews areas needing citations as well.

If I were to add anything to the article I would add:

People drink iced coffee for many reasons, including for the caffeine content, for use in social gatherings, simply for the taste, or even medial reasons.

Due to business such as McDonalds and Starbucks, coffee consumption and popularity has grown exponentially since 2000. In addition, coffee shops themselves have expanded, as there are now coffee shops all around the world, including many airports.

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