User:Serenah3602

About me
My hobbies include hiking, snowboarding, and tennis when it comes to outdoors type activities, and my favorite indoor activities are cooking and playing PC video games. I am born and raised in the Pacific Northwest as you can probably tell from my hobbies. I am working my way up in the medical field and hope to end up an Nurse Practitioner/Paramedic; the benefits of having nurse practitioners and paramedics work alongside each-other has been shown in many cities, allowing people that have to call an ambulance to save a trip to the ER and help declutter the local Emergency departments for the people that really need them.

My Wikipedia interests
If I use Wikipedia in the future it will probably be related to the medical field and microbiology.

Article Evaluation
I have been interested in pit-bull breed dogs since I was young, and have always found it interesting to see how people perceive them as pets. I have noticed that sometimes when someone says something about them it is either completely against them for being aggressive or completely the opposite of that saying they are the most gentle dogs in the world. I have found that both sides of the argument can be flawed, so I visited the Pit-bull article on Wikipedia and found three aspects that I could see would be notable to comment on: Outdated citations, Biased sources, and irrelevant sections within the article.

Outdated citations
I noticed when looking at the many citations within this article, many of them were from almost 10 years ago. I saw one that was from 2018 but out of the 92 citations used, that was the only relatively recent one. This could cause more bias in the article itself because if many of the facts used were from almost 10 years ago, it will not show what new statistics and information we have on the breed.

Biased sources
When I looked at the sources used in this article, there were many of them that seemed to have an obvious bias toward pit-bull breeds. Many of them were using language like "stop the stigma on pit-bulls" which is fine, but it shows that the tone of that article will show bias. I also noticed some of the citations led to other Wikipedia pages that had warnings like "this article requires additional citations for verification" on the page. I also noticed the pictures of the dogs they had on the page were somewhat biased, showing a picture with a large pit-bull in a full muzzle which is something I have not seen being shown on other pages about dog breeds.

Irrelevant sections
The last portion of the main article has a warning above it stating "this section may contain indiscriminate, excessive, or irrelevant examples", and was talking about famous people pit-bulls in the past which seems rather irrelevant to the breed. The paragraph states people like Helen Keller, Billy Holiday, and Theodore Roosevelt and the fact that they all had pit-bulls which I think is not relevant to information about the breed of dog, it seems more like it is trying to sell you the breed because someone famous had it as well.

Summary
Overall, I think this page has many good facts about pit-bull type dogs and I think it makes a solid effort not to have bias opinions. That being said I think some of the sources and citations need to be updated especially since the statistics are always changing, I think it should cut out some of the bias articles about pit-bulls, and I think the section about famous people owning pit-bulls should be removed.