User:Tanessawiki/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Veneer (dentistry)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this because I am a pre-dental student applying for dental school this spring. This interests me because it is something I am planning on doing in the future. I knew some things about veneers due to working as a dental assistant but I wanted to deep dive more about it.

Evaluate the article
Leading section - The lead does include what a veneer is and how it plays into an individuals life. It does not include a brief description of the major topics to come ahead in the article. I believe it is concise and straight to the point.

content - articles content is all relevant towards the topic of veneers. The content could be updated as new technology and practices have risen since 1980's. I don't believe there is any content missing and it looks all like it all belongs. I actually like that they included the history of veneers to see where this whole aesthetic dental work has come from.

Tone and balance - The tone and balance showed no indications of biases or persuasion of any kind. It is mainly an informational piece to get the background and how veneers are made, placed, and causes. I think the contraindications is heavily weighed compared to the indications that could be more balanced to not seem like it is swaying too much especially because the contraindications is a lot of opinion.

Sources- I think that the sources could be updated and backed by other peer-reviewed articles to create more accurate and up to date content. Some of the items in the article are flagged and do not have citations to back up the content, such as the classification section.

organization and writing quality- it does make it easy to follow for me personally because I know a lot of the terms, but to the naked eye with no background may be confused. I think the article is well written but organizational wise could help to switch things around such as the classifications vs the indications and contraindications.

Images and media - I think the image displayed on the veneer article is okay, I think it could be better as it is just comparing a crown vs a veneer. I think if it was changed to just a veneer, a better quality image, and explaining what we are looking at would be a much better use of an image rather than a comparison.

Talk page discussion- The talk includes some controversial ways the article contradicts itself, some about celebrities getting veneers, and new updated ways to get veneers. In my opinion it is a good talk page, it give new modern technology with sources, maybe an example with a celebrity, and how they feel the article is not the best it can be.

Overall feedback- I think this a good article in general, the tone and how it is written to inform is good. I think it is necessary to update things that were from the 1900's to now the modern 2000s. Including images, technology, technique, and other things. I do not think it is too long or too short I think it keeps the reader interested while informing the audience.