User:Superduperuberstardust/sandbox

= Article Critique = My absolute favorite place to visit every summer is the beautiful Conconully Washington. Seeing our close family friends and the amazing landscape always brings me a sort of peace, so visiting the page on on of my favorite towns i was shocked to find how barren the entry was. When I visited the Conconully, Washington page on Wikipedia, I found these three aspects worth commenting on: Quilting, Recreation, and Structure.

Quilting
When you enter the town, you see huge painted quilts depicting local wildlife and businesses. King5 just recently did a Evening Magazine story on these wooden quilts, showing one of the unique aspects of the town and it's people. In addition to the wooden quilts, they hold a yearly quilt and craft show in town. The art of quilting runs strong with this town and I feel it should be showcased in a culture section of the page to add more general knowledge about the town.

Recreation
Another section that could be added to the page is one on recreational activities and the effect they have on the local economy. The town in a very camping and fishing oriented place, you can buy your fishing or hunting licences right in the town store and hook up your RV at any of the many resorts lined along either of the two lakes. Adding information about the activities such as hunting/fishing, ATV/Snowmobiling, and camping can all bulk up the information about the town itself so it doesn't look like it is just climate and census records.

Structure
The page seems mostly focused on the climate and census of the town. While all of the information in these sections are very concise and solid, it seems to be lacking in the history section. Three short sentences is the whole history portion of the page. The article links to the actual official chamber of commerce page for Conconully where you can find an extensive amount more about the history than what the wiki entry gives us, which I think could have been fleshed out a bit more to look more professional.

Conclusion
The page is good, but could use some additional parts to become better. With a larger portion dedicated to the history section and the addition of a culture or maybe even wildlife section to the article I think it could be improved greatly. Again, the climate/geography and census sections are complete and well sourced, but when compared to other town pages in the same county I feel the page is lacking with only having a few sections while there are a whole slew of different topics that could be covered here.

(As part of this assignment I posted a question on the talk page here.)