User:Kniegemann

About Me
I am a high school student that is taking college credit classes and working towards my AA degree. My plan is to go to a university and major in elementary education. Some of my interests are training for volleyball, baking, and traveling. To improve skills for volleyball such as your vertical jump, it's important to use the weight room often and work on leg and hip strengthening exercises. I also enjoy spending time with family and friends.

My Wikipedia Interests
I have used Wikipedia for information but I am new to having an account. I am interested in learning about bias writing and how to make information more accurate. I also would like to learn how to edit pages. When I have a better understanding on how to use Wikipedia, I would like to start making pages with information.

Article Evaluation
I highly enjoy going on hikes with friends and family and seeing the beautiful scenery. Due to this interest, I have been wanting to find more hikes to do in Washington State. I think it is important for Wikipedia to have accurate and up to date information on hikes and trails. I visited the site for the Dog Mountain trail page on Wikipedia and found three aspects worth commenting on; lack of sub headings, information that was not up to date, and lack of citations.

Lack of Sub Headings

One thing I have noticed as a common factor between most Wikipedia pages is that they contain sub headings to help organize their information. Although the article has paragraphs dividing the information, it lacks descriptive sub headings. Adding these headings would help to organize the information and make it easier for most people to comprehend.

Information That Is Not Up to Date

Although this page contained some interesting information, this article is not up to date. The last time this page was edited was in June of 2018. Therefore, this page may lack useful and informative current information. This surprised me because when I looked at other pages about trails and hikes, most were edited between 2020 and 2021.

Lack of Citations

In the third paragraph of this article, it says a writer described the difficulty of the trail as "grueling" and gave a link to useful data to support his statement. When I clicked on the link, it stated that this page was not found. There were also multiple other links that were dysfunctional or inaccessible.

Summary

Overall, I believe this page is in need of some reconstruction. I think this page gave insightful and general information about Dog Mountain. However, I believe it was lacking an organized layout, it did not contain current information, and there were many dead links present within the references.