User:AndrewPpohl/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
3D printing

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
A lot of this article is very thorough but some sections are extremely long. There are suggestions in the article suggesting that parts could be shortened and split into sub articles, while some other segments might need some added information, or some existing articles could use some extra info.

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.)

This article discusses several key aspects: it discusses the history of 3D printing, the 3D printing process and methods, the applications/industries it affects, and the societal changes it brings.


 * The sections on methods and applications are both suggested to be shorted which could be interesting, as some of these subjects could constitute their own sub-articles, which could be a good thing to focus on.
 * Impacts on medical equipment and the health sector could likely be lumped together into one segment about how the technology affects healthcare.
 * The method sections could be cut down, some explanations of how the technologies work are much more thorough than others. Detailed explanations of how the technologies work are not needed and sub articles about the actual topic can be linked in a more to the point explanation

Question: Some of the sections say they can be shortened or summarized. Would some of the sections be most benefitted from combining sub-sections, or just generally shortening the overall section without any formatting changes? It seems like some of these topics are in depth enough to have their own sub articles devoted to them, and some of them even do, but not all of them, so would it be helpful to potentially create new sub articles about some of these topics all together? ~Andrew Pohl