Talk:Tube Alloys/GA1

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Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 20:13, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]


I'll start this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:13, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Sturmvogel 66: Where are we with this? Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:39, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • No DABs, the Guardian link #102 is dead.
  • French scientists, Oxford, also no comma after Oxford
  • heavy water, which helped them then theorise how uranium could be used for power. delete "then"
  • Link hundredweight
  • Cockcroft became the director The Americans supported the project missing period in the middle
  • world famous hyphenate
  • upon the nations best apostrophe for nation
  • Oliphant discovered that Briggs had locked away Who is Briggs?
  • screening process so that he could make way for America travel to America?
  • Rotblat had been left in charge of the Tube Alloys research and brought with him his research done while head of the operation Chadwick had left to him. Awkward.
  • Be consistent in providing publisher's location. And using title case.
  • This is a big article, so I'll give it another pass later to see if there's anything that I missed.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:11, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Last pass:

  • Link hydro-electric station.
  • At the University of Liverpool, Chadwick and the Polish refugee scientist Joseph Rotblat tackled the problem, but their calculations were inconclusive.[22] At the University of Liverpool, Nobel Prize in Physics laureates George Paget Thomson and William Lawrence Bragg wanted the government to take urgent action to acquire uranium ore. Rephrase so the university only needs to be mentioned once.
  • Union Minière du Haut Katanga company, which had a British vice president, Lord Stonehaven Perhaps ", whose British vice president,"
  • When the Tizard Mission returned Cockcroft reported comma after returned.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:00, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]