User:JE215/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Family Book

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article after seeing that it was a frequently challenged book. This book holds cultural relevance in its LGBT related themes, which was more than enough for me to decide to give at least a cursory look at the article. After having seen the article, it might need modernizing and expanding.

Evaluate the article
Lead: The lead section of this article... is just the article. The information present in this article could be expanded upon and broken down further. However, it does provide all of the relevant information a reader might want from the book, so it does at least suffice as a summary, even if it is a bit bare-bones.

Content: As stated previously, the content is a bit lacking. For instance, there is no discussion of the book's plot beyond the first sentence of the article. It might be worthwhile to expand the plot discussion to be more descriptive of what is described in the book. In addition, the article is dated. Given its controversial status, there might be excluded scandals about the book; however, this is just speculative, and if none exist, the point is moot. The article does relate to LGBT studies and is appropriately flagged.

Tone: One phrase that might be problematic is "after some parents complained," primarily because it is non-specific to the extent of the complaint. If possible, specify.

Overall: This article is appropriately labeled as a stub. The information about the book is bare-minimum in terms of the book itself, with an imbalance focusing on the controversial nature of the book. It is functional as a stub, but would benefit from expansion.