User:Sinsterrez12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Lolita

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'm currently reading Lolita right now, so the plot is familiar to me. Given the novel's complexity and hidden meanings, I wanted to judge if the Wikipedia plot was both neutral (in that it doesn't read too much into it) yet substantial enough. Furthermore the novel is iconic - one of the top English language books of all time. As such, it has been read by many scholars, students, and ordinary people - all with their own interpretations. At the onset, I noticed that much of the lead paragraph involved the publisher and history of the work, which makes more sense. It's one of those pieces of information that you can easily take for granted.

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.)

In general, the wikipedia page was quite good. It was both interpretative and neutral, something that wikipedia pages on novels commonly are. The sources were also quite valuable as much of the information was taken either straight from the novel or from research on Lolita. Again, the lead section was precise, accurate, and valuable to the reader. The content and the plot summary was clear and neutral.

I found the interpretation section to be quite lacking. There are many scholars that study Nabokov, but I can't seem to tell why the specific interpretations in the wiki article were chosen. Furthermore, it would be great if the controversy section was expanded. It felt a tad bit short for a novel that was a lighting rod for controversy.