Talk:Clinton Engineer Works/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Tomobe03 (talk · contribs) 22:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this article shortly.--Tomobe03 (talk) 22:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are several duplicate links which should not be there per WP:OVERLINK. In the lead: Oak Ridge; In the main prose body: Metallurgical Laboratory, Nuclear reactor, Gaseous diffusion, Tennessee Valley Authority.
No disambiguation links found - no action required
Checklinks reports no problems with external links - no action required
Referencing appears to be in order - no action required
MOS:NUMERAL requires that integers from 0 to 9 are spelled out - I fixed a couple of such instances in the article (using spell=in parameter)
Convert templates can produce "adjectives" where needed (using adj=on parameter) - fixed one such instance, please revert if that is not appropriate
I noticed the units of measurements used are normally imperial (metric ones in brackets), but there are at least two instances of the reverse - 500 milligrams (0.018 oz) and 50 kilograms (110 lb). I did not change anything there, but you might consider using order=flip parameter in the convert template to maintain unit types consistent throughout. There is also the sentence "By February, the reactor was irradiating a ton of uranium every three days, and 500 mg of plutonium had been produced" using metric measurement only, but I suspect it has to do with the above metric to imperial conversion order (and avoiding repetitions).
Not sure myself about this one, but it seems to me (per MOS:WORDSASWORDS) that California, university and cyclotron in "The name was derived from the words "California", "university" and "cyclotron"." should be in italics, not in quotes. - no dealbreaker though
Per WP:NUMNOTES, you might consider revising "2,142 48-foot-tall (15 m)" to spell out forty-eight to avoid having two figures one next to the other - no dealbreaker though.
The dates appear largely in DMY format, but there are at least four instances of MDY - September 9, 1945, October 26, 1942, April 1, 1943 and January 1, 1947. Date format should be consistent throughout.
The article appears to be neutrally written and stable - no action required
All images have appropriate licenses and captions - no action required

That's about it. Just a few nitpicking issues to address and the article will be good to go. Great work!--Tomobe03 (talk) 12:27, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your review!

I have removed all the duplicate links.
I have made all the dates consistently DMY throughout, and have tagged the article as using that date format.
I also tagged it as US English, and made some spelling corrections.
Thanks for drawing my attention to MOS:WORDSASWORDS, which I don't recall ever seeing before. I have corrected the main article as well.
Quantities of fissile materials are always measured in grams, even in the 1940s, and even in the US and UK. Thus, the gram is the customary unit in this case, and not the grain as you might expect. (The same applies to Watts)

All changes made. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Cheers--Tomobe03 (talk) 07:57, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]