User:SOPHIAH11/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Villians

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because it is the page I am planning on working with for the project, and I wanted to get a sense of what was there before I started figuring out what we need to add vs. what there is to work with already.

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.)

The lead of the article explains the literary origins of villains and giving a definition of what is being referred to when the term is used. It is concise, but a lot of the information is missing citations. It does, however, provide a well rounded definition and gives some traits commonly associated with the group being mentioned. The article overall brushes over a lot of the different ideas of villains, with the largest sections being about the archetypes and villains in traditional fairy tales. There are gaps in villains in fairy tales that are in cultures other than Russian, and there is also a lack of information about villain stereotypes or famous portrayals of villains. Overall, there is a lot of information that needs to be built on or added to that will go beyond the scope of the project for this class. The article does keep a neutral tone while talking about the different aspects, even when talking about more specific groups, such as female villains. Everything that is written is done well, there is just a serious lack of information as a whole. The images help add to the individual subsections, and as the idea and portrayal of villains is largely in older literature or in images that tell these stories. The article is overall a strongly written overview, but it fails to go into significant detail about most things and doesn't have anywhere to talk about stereotypes: not even a linked page. A lot of people in the talk page mention the lack of information about antisemitism specifically, as that is a big part of villain portrayal throughout history and pop culture.