User:Madysonw3

About me
I am a big fan of travel, and I have been to five European countries. I would love to spend my whole life constantly traveling. I am also incredibly fascinated by history, my favorite topics being WWII and the Cold War. However, I am also really interested in the Russian Revolution. I intend on turning my interests into a career by becoming a history teacher. Working with animals is also another one of my passions, and I frequently volunteer at parrot rescues. I am a strong supporter of the "engaged not caged" movement that advocates for the wellbeing and happiness of parrots everywhere. 75% of pet parrots in the world are abused their entire lives because most people don't have the patience or motivation to give them the care that they truly deserve.

My wikipedia interests
In the future I plan to spend time helping further develop the wikipedia pages for birds and house parrots. I also think that it would be really cool if I ended up creating a wikipedia page about the "engaged not caged" movement so that more people could be properly educated about what it is and why it started, without feeling like they are being forced to participate.

Article Evaluation
I have always found myself pretty heavily involved in the "parrot world," whether it was fighting for their rights, giving them proper love and care, or just learning everything I could. My life constantly revolved around them. I visited the Companion Parrot page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: citations, completeness, and grammar.

Completeness
I feel that the introduction to the page was very lacking and misleading. For example, the authors created a false image of parrots where they describe them as the perfect pets, and they made it seem like they could easily fit in in any home. This bothered me a lot because this image that they created isn't true, and further into the article they even contradict this first image by explaining how hard parrots are to keep as pets. I also believe that another great and necessary addition to the article would be to create a section that focuses on the brutal truth of abused parrots, and the rapidly growing crisis that parrot and more specifically Cockatoo rescue sanctuaries are facing because of the false image that articles like this have created.

Grammar
My last critique of this article is that there were a few very noticeable grammar errors that stuck out like sore thumbs. The pattern that I found in this article is that the authors often added too many commas, or forgot to add one where it was actually needed. There were also a couple instances where I noticed that the writing was technically grammatically correct, but it just seemed kind of awkward and it didn't flow very well.

Summary
All in all, the Companion Parrot wikipedia page had some very valuable information that could benefit a person considering delving into the parrot world. However, it also had some shocking claims that did not have any evidence to support them, and it had almost no citations at all. It also left me with a sense of incompleteness, and had a few grammar errors that made it seem less formal. After doing this article evaluation, I plan on working to fix some of these major issues that I found because wikipedia pages like these are very important to the success of household parrots, and it would be devastating to see it be taken down because of reliability issues.