User:Mnj02/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Afro-punk

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I have chosen this article because of its growing influence within popular music over the last few years. This article matters because it documents a movement that was a counter-movement against a culture that was largely homogenous, however, the article appears to be very short upon first impression and relies on one source primarily.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of the article does a good job in defining Afro-punk but what seems odd is the use of the statement "African American and other black people." Contributors in the Talk page also note this. Furthermore, The wiki is accessible for reading but the way the "History" topic starts with "The term originated from the 2003 documentary..." before jumping to a paragraph about 20th century punk history does make sense. Content-wise it is up to date but there is very little information given outside of the festival and the film by James Spooner who coined the original term. There are not even images of the famous festival to add more context nor is there much description about the influence of black punk culture outside of the lead section.

The biggest takeaway about this article is that it could be a sub-article (or topic) within an article about punk rock genres instead of being its stand-alone topic, given that there is not a lot of information for this topic except for the official AFROPUNK Festival website. It seems to be very under-cited. The articles weakest point seems to not fully differentiate itself between describing the history of a culture and citing a music festival, but its strength is clearly defining the term within its lead section. It would need more developing, and as mentioned before, could be its own topic in an article about punk rock genres.