User:Rattleskatebite/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Xanadu Houses

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 chose this article because I had never heard of Xanadu Houses before and thought it would be interesting. Furthermore it is a topic related to my course in the history of architecture and I have an interest in design ideas that push the boundaries.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Overall this article is very informative, and at first reading appears to be very well done. The lead section gives an explanation of what Xanadu houses are, and who built them and where they were located as well as the intent of the builder. The overall content, organization and tone seem appropriate and in keeping with Wikipedia standards. There are few images and they are of low resolution, but they match the content and are well captioned, and appear to adhere to the rules.

There are two glaring problems with this article, which may actually be the same problem. This article has a banner at the top letting readers know that it relies heavily on a primary source- which is the book written by the architect of the houses in the article. There are 19 citations and 11 are from the same book. The final section describes the interior of the automated Xanadu home, and seems to reflect what the intent of the builder was rather than the reality. This seems to skew the article greatly. Finding more information about the homes as they stood in contrast to the idealized version of the builder would be very valuable for this article.

This article addresses and interesting topic and a part of multiple WikiProjects, but is rated C, and could use additional research and secondary sources.