User:Louie3000

My name is Luis Vera-Yrizarris and I am the oldest of 6. I was born in Traverse city Michigan and lived there for a couple years as well as California, Mexico and Arizona before moving to Washington in 2006. The main reason I am in college is so that I can transfer to a university to play college football, I am not sure as to what college I want to play for yet, the main goal is to ultimately just play. Hobbies include video games, working out, playing and watching football, music, cooking, and movies.

Article Evaluation

I grew up being told stories about La Llorona and how she wanders the earth endlessly looking for her children as she weeps. I wanted to see how much truth there was to the folk tale and with that in mind I visited the La Llorona page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its lack of citations, unreliable claims, and some irrelevant information.

Citations

Although at first glance it is apparent that there are citations throughout the page, there is also a lack there of. For much of the reading it is notable that there is a lot of information being revealed but very few citations to go along with it. Along with lack of citations I also found that when clicking on some citation links, it takes me to an external link that has no information on the subject.

Unreliable claims

When reading the article there are large sections of information that have no reliable sources so its hard to tell how much true and how much is just made up to fit the story for their liking. Without having reliable sources or citations I wouldn’t recommend believing some of the information without further research.

Irrelevant information

Furthermore, there is a section that talks about the Origin of La Llorona and although it mentions her name, it seems to talk more about La Milinche. Although it explains how the two legends may be similar, it goes on to claim that there is no evidence the two tales are related, therefore making that information somewhat unnecessary in my opinion.

Summary

In conclusion, my analysis of the article is that it does have a decent amount of information about La Llorona, yet, with so many missing citations, unreliable sources, and information that can be irrelevant I would give the page a rating of C+.