User:EVCCGirlie

Bio

Who am I?

Thank you for checking my user page. My name is Callie. This is not my primary account, rather, the one I will be using for my assignments in the college course I am taking. I play music, program, write, and consume a truly unhealthy amount of television, games and other media.

Why am I here?

On my usual account, I plan on mostly contributing to Wikipedia from a conservationist standpoint, trying to write and edit pages to preserve information about largely forgotten pieces of media. On this account however, it will mostly be writing pages to act as essays on niche topics for the purposes of completing assignments.

Article Evaluation

I find a lot of interest in making sure things stay preserved for as long as possible and this becomes particularly important when those things begin to be lost like the quickly dying out species, the Oceanic Hawaiian Damselfly (or it's scientific name, the Megalagrion Oceanicum). With the Wikipedia article about this creature, I found two problems noteworthy enough as to feel the need to change them.

Improper Use of Citations

The Wikipedia article on the Oceanic Hawaiian Damselfly cites two sources for it's creation and only properly uses the second, as well as completely omitting nearly all information from the first. In order for this article to be a fully functioning source of valuable info, sources need to be placed carefully such that each fact listed is supported by a corresponding source cited.

Lack of Useful Information

This article makes sure to go into some detail regarding the approaching extinction of the species, it fails to do much if any explaining on the actual nature of the species (it's biology, genus, general place in the food chain, etc.) This information can even be found in the vastly underutilized second source.

Conclusion

This article is helpful in that it can properly reorient you to the proper authorities on the research of this fascinating insect, but fails to relay that information to the reader in a meaningful way.