Talk:Deepwater Horizon/GA1

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Reviewer: Ironholds (talk) 16:08, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance of more information on the design and construction?
"Litigation, ultimate roll call of damage, and the scope of final insurance recovery, are all unknown at present." - not referenced.
Link RBS-8D
and ultra-deepwater, column-stabilized, et al.
"two hundred" versus all the rest, given in digits. I suggest standardising as "200"
Link R&B Falcon, if possible
"between R&B Falcon to Transocean" - awkward - "between R&B Falcon and Transocean"
"and the transfer value as US $340 million" should be referenced.
"This was an attempt to buy time while attempts " - attempts, twice
"r approximately 36 hours, Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, 2010, in water approximately" - approximately, twice.
"oil spill also can cause" awkward wording. Has it not already caused such things? If so, wrong tense. If not, "is capable of causing". Ironholds (talk) 16:08, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quick comments:

Unknown but will look up more on design/construction, to see what exists. Update found sources, will add. Done
Very hard to reference a negative. A statement that certain information that would be of interest and expected to be in an article, is not yet in the article because it's unknown at this time, is reasonable. Leaving it out begs the question or could suggest the stated information is complete, which it isnt. (If not,suggestions?) Unlikely to be a contentious statement, since probably verifiable that blame, liability, payouts, etc are not concluded from ongoing discussion related to these, in the news. Not sure
200/two hundred - fixed. Done
RBS-8D is a design number, no link. Made clearer in text. Done
Attributes cited - "column stabilized" still needs a cite Done
R&B Falcon is now part of Transocean - article slightly refactored to make this clear and cite added. Done
To/and - fixed Done
$340m cited Done
attempts x 2 - refactored sentence. Done
approximately x 2 - refactored sentence Done
"also can cause" - reworded "has the potential to cause". Done
- Need to see whether sources say it already has done so, hence tagged as "cite needed" and also needs checking for an update on the harm done. Done I think done, please check if it's okay.
One possible extra point to check - text implies rig was leased to BP from 2008/09 ish, but this looks like it was a lease renewal - if so there should be sources saying it was originally BP as well. Done
And need to recheck if it's technically "deepwater" or "ultra deepwater". There's a technical definition, govt documentation, and their website, so this is easy. Done
And the $1/2m a day is "bare ship" only, another 1/2m a day for crew, staff, equipment use etc I think? Again to check, tagged for now Done

FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 17:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Litigation, ultimate roll call of damage, and the scope of final insurance recovery, are all unknown at present." is still unreferenced, as is "Permission had already been requested from MMS to terminate operations at the Macondo site". Ironholds (talk) 16:27, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate the difficulty of referencing the first statement, but some news org somewhere must have said something along the lines of "litigation continues" or whatever that would allow you to reword the statement. Ironholds (talk) 16:28, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's done. Care to check?

Done FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 21:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect! Passing now :). Ironholds (talk) 21:13, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]