User:Nileskiss

About Me
Hello, name is Niles and I hail from the beautiful town of Mechanicsville, Virginia.  I am attending Everett Community College in the pursuit of a degree in information technology to further my career in IT. My primary hobbies include snowboarding and mountaineering with my friends. Last year my associates and I ascended 8868 feet to the summit of El Dorado Peak, this year we have set our sights on the much taller  Mount Baker.

My Wikipedia Interests
Despite frequently reading Wikipedia I have never created or edited a page with the exception of the one you are currently reading. I've read countless articles but my favorite ones are about one-off subjects such as the Underarm Bowling Incident of 1981.

Article Evaluation
I visited the History of the Punjabi language article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: at least one topic was under developed, multiple statements lack sources or are poorly sourced, and it contained two subtopics that did not have sufficient explanations about how they are related to the main article.

Listed under the sub-header "Influence of Urdu" there resides just a single twelve word sentence stating that "In 1837, British East India Company replaced Persian with Urdu in Punjab." What exactly "Urdu" is, why the British East India Company used it to replaced  Persian, and with what authority they achieved this replacement is never explained. It included no links to other Wikipedia articles that could potentially shed any light on what any of these topics are or how they relate to main article, leaving readers completely in the dark about a potentially critical facet of this article.

The whole of the main article is entirely devoid of sources, credible or otherwise. The three subtopics cite only four sources between them with all of them being books and two of them not including a specific page where this information could be found. Under the first sub-header, a poet's description of the differences between the Sanskrit and Prakrit languages is given but the poet is not identified nor is his statement sourced. This renders the article’s accuracy and trustworthiness as extremely dubious in the eyes of the reader.

The subtopics "Influence of Urdu" and "Influence of Hindi" contain potentially irrelevant information. It is stated that Hindi was adopted as part of a Hindu Nationalist movement, which is an entirely separate topic with it's own article. Both of the previously mentioned sub-headers failed to mention what influences Hindi and Urdu had on the Punjabi Language and instead contained brief, one off statements that may or may not actually be facts.

This article is fundamentally flawed and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up with one cohesive topic, more sources, and more expansive data on better articulated subtopics.