Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dentistry/Article rating

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[edit] Importance Rating

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out which rating to use...I think this system might be great for an overall encyclopedia, but there are too many categories for the dental section. Enamel pearl, for instance...initially I gave it a TOP. That was prior to reading the dental method for classification...I figured people on every continent know about enamel pearls. But with your method, I knocked it down to a MID, because, well, what's an enamel pearl? We learn about it in school like we're going to see it on every patient...same with Wegener's granulomatosis. Then it's on every exam. Then we never see or hear about it. What could possibly be less important than an enamel pearl. Maybe an enamel knot or cord. So those two get a LOW? I mean, this starts off too subjective to begin with, and now it's like intraoperator subjectivity from day to day makes this system way too volatile. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 18:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)