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Reflection essay

What I learned about Wikipedia during article evaluations is the many different aspects that go into creating an article. When it came to approaching and critiquing the articles it was like critiquing and analyzing a journal article. I have to see whether the article is notable and accurate to the content that is important to what I need to learn about this topic. For example, for my chosen topic I had to overview all the materials and see what information was relevant across the information and information that is credited and isn’t seen in other articles or journals. The edits I made for my articles were summarizing the key important parts for my person. Such as their early life, what they did in the area, what made them important to the world and why it needs to be made known. While being neutral and objective with how I deliver the information. Generally I learned that when it comes to Wikipedia, you can’t simply add things you have on google. Similar to producing articles or books or essays there are important key things to know when it comes to writing in the mainstream. Wikipedia relies on accuracy and notability. Accuracy and that it’s a summarized version of a topic that allows one to gain background information on a person, place or concept. Also notability, such things like providing information in a neutral and objective way. Because when you’re gaining information, you want the facts first before anything and can’t be a straight copy paste of information from other sources. I need to give information about a topic unknown to others, and so I need accurate and notable sources that people might want to know about the person. For my topic it brought to my eyes a person whose identity matches mine and brought to my attention someone who succeeded during a period of time of anti-Asian sentiment. My career is to become an educator and one of the important things about being one in this day and age is the importance of informing generations of students about our society and how we got here. A lot of the history that is taught today doesn’t cover those who made important contributions to the communities around them and are forgotten or not even told in the books of our state. And as an educator I need objective and accurate information to inform generations of the things that happened in the past to educate on how they contributed to the things that occur to today. Like systemic racism and it’s affects into society today.