Hello and welcome to my Wikipedia page. Presently, I am a high school student attending community college through the Running Start program, which allows 11th and 12th grade students to enroll in a list of 34 community or technical colleges in the state of Washington.^[1] A few of my interests include, pencil and digital art, piano, playing video games, and building enthusiast mechanical keyboards for computers. It's also worth mentioning that I enjoy reading a great deal, primarily fantasy and science fiction. Beyond this, I own two cats, who's colorings are respectively a tabby and a tabby/tortoiseshell mix.

Prior to very recently, I had never even considered creating or even editing Wikipedia articles in any capacity. However I have personally utilized the functionality of Wikipedia numerous times and often find it to be an invaluable source of information. If I maintain my presence on Wikipedia in the future I would certainly be interested in overviewing and editing topics I find interesting and am knowledgeable in. And if I find something that I am passionate about which has no representation on Wikipedia, I could absolutely see myself creating and curating a page for it.

In the past I would never have considered myself a hobbyist, as I simply wasn’t interested in any one area and the thought of sinking a considerable amount of time and money into a hobby seemed absurd to me. However, that belief was changed when I found myself submerged in the somewhat niche world of mechanical keyboards. Over the last several years I have spent more time then I would care to mention learning everything there is to know about mechanical keyboards, and in the world of keyboards the brand and manufacturer known as Cherry reigns supreme. As a topic and brand I know extensively, I visited Cherry on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its old citations, uncited facts, and the lack of information on Cherry clone switches. Old citation

Although Cherry is considered to be the oldest currently operating keyboard switch manufacturer, that doesn’t mean its Wikipedia links should be just as old. Despite the Cherry Wikipedia page being consistently edited and updated, many of the links are very old, ranging from 2013 to all the way back in 2008. A lot can change in that amount of time and I believe that some of the citations are no longer relevant and should be replaced with newer more relevant ones or removed entirely.

Uncited facts

Several key claims and facts stated within Cherry’s Wikipedia page are not backed up by any sort of citations. For example in the first paragraph of the page it talks about how the son of Cherry’s founder sold the company to a German manufacturing company. However, there is no citation linked to this fact. Other places on the article such as the patenting and marketing sections are also devoid of any sort of citation.

Cherry clones

The last and in my eyes most important missing component of this page is the lack of information on Cherry clone switches. As the oldest and by far most popular switch manufacturer Cherry switches have become the standard for keyboards and a plethora of other companies have attempted to imitate this. Despite there being one sentence of information on this, there is a whole history of the original cherry switch production processes that were kept secret and sold or copied many times. This information, which is completely missing within the Wikipedia page, is an important part of Cherry history that should be present on the page.

Summary

Despite it’s missing content and a few outdated links, I believe the overall quality of this page is quite good. This page contains a large amount of information on Cherry, from the list of popular switches they produce, to even providing sound files of some switches. Upon review of the Cherry Wikipedia page I have found it to be overall a good if brief summary of the history of the company and containing the majority of important information pertaining to its own history.