User:JaimeA10/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating
Eye surgery

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am very interested in becoming an ophthalmologist and want to become for familiar with eye care practices. I found this article through the Wiki Ophthalmology Task Force (WikiProject Medicine/Ophthalmology task force) which has worked on many important articles relating to eye health and the study of ophthalmology.

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.)

I think this article is put together very well, but I think it could use some expansion.

History: Since the main photo on this article is a medieval depiction of early eye surgery, there should be a section on the history of eye surgery and the early methods used. In the lead section, it mentions that eye surgery has been included in texts from 1800 BC, but does not expand on anything mentioned in early texts. I think it would be beneficial to explain how eye surgery started so people can compare it to modern day eye surgery.

Structure: This article has a fairly good organization in that it generally discussed eye surgery and the breaks down the different types of surgery methods used. While reading through the "Talk" page, I saw how they debated the necessity to split up laser eye surgery and refractive surgery into their own sections, which was a good decision. However, I think there needs to be better descriptions of the types of surgeries and why ophthalmologists choose which method to use.

Resources: This article provides many reliable sources, but many of the sources do need to be revised as some of them direct you to an unavailable page and the most recent source was published in 2017. There has been lots of eye surgery innovations since 2017, so it would be appropriate to update this article with new improvements in the field of ophthalmology related to eye surgery.

Conclusion: This article provides lots of useful information and was put together in a very orderly format, but I think it could use more explanation and detail of the history and methods of eye surgery rather than just providing a plethora of source links. I wouldn't define the article as "under-developed" but more as "under-polished" since it included necessary information but not useful details.