User:Trevorh910/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Yik Yak

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This is a online community that was extremely popular in 2014 through 2016 before it's inevitable downfall. However, due to a new parent company owning this social media space it has started to regain it's popularity. This rise of popularity, especially on Northwestern's campus, sparked my interest to investigate how thorough and informative their Wikipedia page is. I found that the page was lacking in depth and did not always follow the rules/pillars of a Wikipedia page.

Evaluate the article
I thought this article had some interesting points and topics, along with giving me a basic fundamental understanding of the workings and history of the social media platform: Yik Yak. Here are my suggestions:


 * I believe the introductory sentence in this article is unable to concisely and clearly describes the article's topic. Instead of starting the Wikipedia page with the origins of the application, I would instead give a brief summary of what the application does and what people use it for. For reference you can look at other social media Wikipedia pages to get a better understanding of how to begin the Yik Yak page.
 * Instead of comparing the platform to other platforms in your introduction paragraph, you could instead give a more in-depth summary of the social media site, and then compare the application later on in the page.
 * I think this article could have used more informative images, like for example having an image of the interface of the application with examples of how the online communities on Yik Yak interact.
 * I think the history of Yik Yak and how it was started could use more information about the creation of the application and how the creators initially intended to use it.
 * I also believe adding a section about how the application works right now compared to when it shut down in 2017 would be beneficial to the reader. Along with adding an aspect of how Yik Yak is combatting cyberbullying now compared to before they first shut down.
 * In the Features subsection, the feature called "Other Top Yaks" should be deleted because it has no relevance to the app.
 * Also in the features subsection, the feature titled "Photos" should be updated because that is an outdated feature.
 * Throughout most of the article you maintain a very neutral point of view, however in the Dissolution part of the page it seems like you take a stance on cyberbullying and how Yik Yak helped perpetuate the issue. However, I think it is important to also include the perspective how Yik Yak combatted cyberbullying along with the benefits of having a anonymous online community. It is important that you do not disregard one side of the story in order to get your point across about how bade Yik Yak was for cyberbullying because I am sure their are benefits of having a anonymous community that people felt comfortable in which Yik Yak provided.
 * The See Also subsection should have more context and this could be the place where you add the information comparing Yik Yak to other social media pages.
 * You did a great job at providing an extensive amount of sources and resources to help defend the facts. Trevorh910 (talk) 22:43, 7 January 2022 (UTC)