User:Ivanatheslayer/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Utopian studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because I had taken a class on dystopian television from the 1950s to present last semester and wanted to look into the whole field as I didn't even realize it had one. It's important because it's a field which combines many schools of thought, such as social theories and communitarianism.

I thought it needed a lot more attention as there was little writing and most of the sections were just lists of something that is relevant to the topic without any informative explanation of those lists.

Evaluate the article
The lead does an effective job to explain what it is and how the term utopia came to be, but it doesn't outline the following sections at all. It fails to consider any equity gaps at all as it simply provides a very brief description of the field.

There seems to be great care in ensuring everything is properly sourced, but it can be too overwhelmingly when those sources are just listed without any context as to why they're relevant to the topic and without any introduction to the material. There's a lot of information listed that is relevant to each section, but there's no explanation to their significance in the field which they do acknowledge as needing more expansion. For example, they list notable authors in the field with a description, but the description does little but name the book they wrote and the publisher. The list also seems to have no reason to their order, not by date nor alphabetically nor by significance of the author. This isn't cohesive with the preceding section as they explicitly detail that the list is in "roughly chronological order".

Otherwise, the tone seems to be impartial and it tries to condense as many sources as it can.