User:ZekeMelo2000/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Arcadia (utopia)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it falls under utopias which the class looked into in Fancis Bacon's New Atlantis. I could not find a page "Bensalem," the utopia fiction featured in the novel in the utopian fiction subsection so I chose this instead.

Evaluate the article
In evaluating this article I saw a number of things that stood out to me.

In the lead section the first sentence is confusing where it "refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature." The use of vision is a little vague where it can state this as "a Pastoralism form of a utopian-like Idea that incorporates being one with nature." The lead section is brief and does lead into some of the of the major sections, but not all of them.

There is a lot to be desired with citations as citations are very spares and a lot of paragraphs and important information has been left without a citation. Frequently I can also see "citation needed" marks on the article. The sources that are available seem to be current and a little diverse so that might be a good thing.

For the tone and balance I cannot say. This is because I am not sure if the words on the pages are the wikipedian's writing or rather the source that they had but did not list. Most of the sentences do seem to be neutrally spoken at least.

The article seems to be easy to read at least if I try not to mind that there is a lot of citation needed. Whatever the topic has seems to organized okay, and the grammar and spelling is good.

The media and pictures seem to be okay. There are images that relate to the topic and some even come from the book that originated "arcadia" but the captions are a little sparse too. One of them only says "An artist's vision of Arcadia" without links.

There is a single conversation thread in the talk section from 2012 and it says that this page "is seriously in need of some TLC." There was only one reply that asked them to take care of it maybe by merging it to another page or having it be re-written.

The article's overall status seems to be poor. IT doesn't have a lot of strengths and among the main weaknesses is its lack of content and very lacking citation for information it displays. It can be improved by addressing those two weaknesses and maybe pulling information of the Arcadia (disambiguation) page. I would say this article is incomplete and can benefit a lot from some TLC like the talk discussion suggested.