User talk:Chadatkins8

Chad's Wikipedia Proposal

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

I chose this Article because I have not done any of the other random article assignments unfortunately. Aside, the introduction for the article is very short and I feel could use more information.The article also only uses 3 sources throughout the entire article and use them sparingly. This means that I could improve on this and make this article's information a little more credible. Finally, there is little use of wikilinks throughout the article. Some terms in the article that could use wikilinks are "safari tour", "express style system", and "alligator pond"

proposal feedback
Thanks for posting your proposal. You're right; this is a fairly bad article. Your proposed changes (adding Wikilinks and revising the lead section) sound good. You could also find more sources, but don't feel like you need to turn this into a research project.

I recommend that you study Wikipedia's guidelines for lead sections and linking before you start. Reviewing those references and making these two improvements would be plenty of work for this assignment.

Please let me know if you need any help along the way. -KS DeerJerky (talk) 21:28, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

reflection
I changed two major things in my article. I added additional information to the lead section and cited it. I also added wikilinks throughout the article in the history sections as well as the Ride Experience -> Ride section. The thing that was difficult about this assignment was finding the very limited information about Rhino Rally. This may be because the ride was popular when the internet wasn't super prevalent. This means that there was no internet articles written about it when it opened in 2001 which is generally when most park attractions are talked about. The inserting of wiki links and citations was easy because it took only a couple different buttons to accomplish and from there it was as simple as copying and pasting a URL. This assignment taught me that while this article may be scarce as far as citations, the information was correct upon further research. This relates to Wikipedia's overall credibility as we have discussed in class. While some articles such as this one may seem unreliable, it is just the appearance of the article that seems that way. With further research, anyone could see that this article is legit and contains most of the information you need on the topic. It is articles like these that give other wikipedia articles a bad reputation. Chadatkins8 (talk)