User:GMT2020UPRC/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Talk:Skin care
 * Article Evaluation
 * This page redirects to cosmetics, but skin care is about the health of the skin. Much more than simply its appearance. It should have its own article. These concepts do not completely overlap. Article expansion underway. It will not be feasible for me to do all of this such as botulinum, exfoliation, fillers, laser resurfacing, microdermabrasion, peels, retinol therapy, at least at present, but I will get a subset of relevant subsection headers started.


 * Sources
 * These links don´t work and most of these articles are secondary sources or sources that are not that great.or you can´t go go the link to see the original article:
 * http://informahealthcare.com/isbn/9781616310004
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6996088
 * These are some sources that work:
 * https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/118791/1/Lichterfeld.pdf
 * http://www.allergan.com/assets/pdf/botox_cosmetic_pi.pdf

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Talk:Dental braces


 * Article Evaluation
 * I saw that they have to add a benefits section, along with diseases that can (possibly) be prevented by braces. Also, most of the time you have to take some teeths out, including the wisdom teeth, so the treatment goes well. Brackets are just a tool in orthodontic therapy. In this article there is a lot of confusion, it seems that braces and orthodontic therapy are the same thing. For example: "Typical cost of braces in the United States is about 5,000 USD".I think the whole topic should be reorganized and many parts discussed in other topics. Under the section "Treatment time and cost" it lists various costs in several different countries, wich means that the prices can be from only the United States and not other countries. About the pain, you will not experience much pain on the day that you get your braces, but you will experience pain the day after and for a few days and everytie you get them tightened up. Lastly, why do so many people need braces? Why don't teeth just grow right naturally? It doesn´t explain it on the article.


 * Sources
 * As I said before, some of the sources are not avaible or you can´t look them up, but here are some sources that I found very useful for the article:
 * https://www.angle.org/doi/pdf/10.1043/0003-3219%282005%2975%5B919%3AARRSAM%5D2.0.CO%3B2
 * https://doi.org/10.1093/ejo/22.6.665
 * I also liked that they used other sources but not as secondary sources.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Bottled water


 * Article Evaluation
 * There are many things wrong with the articles but I´m just going to mention some of them.
 * I've read the article titled http://articles.guidemegreen.com/articles/29/1/There%92s-No-Such-Thing-As-%91Pure%92-Water, and I realize it's written by a biased ecologist working for a water purification company; however, he makes a very good point that there is a misconception about the word "pure" applied to water. Water is an acid and naturally bonds with other chemicals to reach a level of neutrality that is safe for consumption. The Wikipedia article makes multiple mentions of pure water with no apparent understanding that you can't just have a bottle with only H2O in it. For example, the line "Even if the water itself is pure, a plastic container may leak chemicals into the bottled water," gives the impression that such a pure water exists.
 * Water is not an acid unless you're referring to acid rain. Water has a pH of 7, which is neutral. In chemistry, water is actually an acid and a base, albeit weak ones. Water is both a weak acid and base because its ionization constant is 10^-7. This is how water can create something like the Grand canyon via erosion? We usually consider water to be neutral, however, in terms of classifying water from a chemical analysis standpoint, water has the properties of an acid and a base.
 * This article has many citations and that's good, but the citations ought to use the Wikipedia footnotes.


 * Sources
 * Many sources are actually spam so I wouldn´t recomend this article a lot. But there are are sources that are trustfull too.