User:Xannydave1102

About me
Hello reader, I am a teen from the mountains of Washington and this is my Wiki page. I grew up in Sedro-Woolley, Washington but have recently moved elsewhere. I am so what of an amateur poet, photographer, and singer but I haven't taken very serious steps in advancing my skills in these fields, no need to improve something that's already good enough for me. I have very strong interests in firearms, politics, nature, and history. I love being independent and being free while still having a very strong work ethic and putting my family over anything else. I am who I am and I choose to live the life I want to live.

My Wikipedia interests
If I was to work on content on Wikipedia I would focus mostly on firearm and history pages to ensure their accuracy because it's very important that history is preserved and not forgotten, and the firearms because it's simply an interest of mine that I take great pride in. I hope to someday help write or write a page on an issue that is not being talked about very often, where previously marginalized groups are being commended and praised so highly that they feel they can now marginalize their oppressors. I'm not sure what I would call this issue but I am leaning towards vers-bigotry or reverse bigotry. I feel that it's doing major harm to not just our country, but to countries across the world. I would also like to write or help write a page on the history of zealotry and the harm that it has done to the world at large. There are countless examples of how zealotry has done major harm from the Crusades to ANTIFA. A riot on November 10th, 2016 led by ANTIFA caused over a million dollars in damages and it's estimated that the Crusades 1.7 million people died in total.

Article Evaluation
Disasters play a major role in how society changes. Some disasters like 9/11 or Pearl Harbor helped shape entire generations of people with nationalistic and xenophobic ideas. With disasters brings confusion, and confusion leads to people desperately trying to find answers. Some are satisfied with the answers provided by their elected officials while others liked to find their own answers with their own research but the confusion caused by the disaster creates ambiguity among the multitudes of different answers on the internet or in books or in any other form of media. A lot of people who found their own answers who have very little to no proof of their ideas are labeled conspiracy theorists. Often in conspiracy theorist ideology you’ll find the term Crisis Actor come up. Crisis Actors, according to Wikipedia, are actors who portray victims in emergency situations. I visited the Crisis Actor page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: the size of the article,  the amount of sources, and a personal speculation.

The Crisis Actor article is quite small. It only has 4 sections, and only 2 of them pertain to the actual article. It has the brief overview of the article at the beginning, a small section on how Crisis Actors are used officially, a section on its involvement in conspiracy theories, a see also link, and it’s references. The article is well written and does a large array of references with all of it’s information but the article is still very small.

This article has a lot of sources which helps solidify all that’s written on the page. The page has 16 reference links for a page that only has 3 sections of writing. There seems to be more sources about Crisis Actors than actual information about them on the official wiki page. The sources themselves are quite interesting. 7 out of the 16 references share the same date: October 28th, 2017, 4 references don’t have dates at all, and 3 share another date: February 22nd, 2018. The summary at the top is linked to references 1 through 6. A lot of sources used for a page so small.

With how well written it is, how brief it is, and how many sources are listed makes you feel strange reading it. A tiny article with a bunch of sources and is well written? Something just doesn’t feel right about it. Maybe it’s just my inner conspiracy theorist but it really seems like the article should be a lot bigger than its written in the article it states that Crisis Actors are an actual occupation and is used by emergency officials to train first responders for emergencies. Only one example of it being used by officials in the entire article and it’s for the picture on the article. The article has a very off putting atmosphere.

The article is small with a lot of sources and I felt a strange sensation after reading what was written and going over the pages entire content. It might just be a reaction to the lack of information or maybe there's something fishy going on in this article. Humans don’t deal with lack of information well. The unfamiliar can cause fear, anxiety, confusion, anger, and all sorts of emotions for us simply because it’s new or it’s different then we’re accustomed to. That kind of ambiguity leads to xenophobic ideas. Notice a cycle?

Here’s the article if you want to read it yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_actor