Talk:Food waste in the United Kingdom/GA1
GA Review[edit]
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GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
Very impressed with the quality of the article when it is submitted to GAN.
- Is it reasonably well written?
- A. Prose quality:
- B. MoS compliance:
- Check and ensure that units are following the conversion MoS guideline.
- A. Prose quality:
- Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
- A. References to sources:
- Good work on finding quality references and adding detailed notes.
- B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
- C. No original research:
- A. References to sources:
- Is it broad in its coverage?
- A. Major aspects:
- B. Focused:
- A. Major aspects:
- Is it neutral?
- Fair representation without bias:
- Fair representation without bias:
- Is it stable?
- No edit wars, etc:
- No edit wars, etc:
- Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
- A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
- All graphs and images are from Commons.
- B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
- A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
- Overall:
- Pass or Fail:
- Pass or Fail:
OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Passed criteria. Now a GA. OhanaUnitedTalk page 15:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
MoS Unit Conversions[edit]
At the moment I have converted all units from Metric to Imperial, however do you think Megagrams is a confusing wording? Tonnes, the same measurement, is used in the tables and would be more recognisable to an audience. Should I replace megagrams with tonnes? MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 16:16, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- I think you shouldn't converted the units from metric to imperial. You just need to add in the imperial conversion to the back of the metric unit (since UK doesn't use imperial system anymore). And yes, megagram is very very confusing. OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- What do you mean by add the imperial conversion to the back of the metric unit? The UK does still use the imperial system loosely nowadays by the way; although it's popularity is declining it is still reasonably important. Agreed, megagrams seems terribly confusing (I didn't even know it existed...). MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 17:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, generally my impression is that UK has switched to metric units (so 50km/h instead of 20mi/h), so I thought this topic is related to UK and should use metric units. The formatting should be something like this "... produced a total of 1kg (2.2 pounds) of waste..." OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Miles are still present on all cars, road signs and in common usage in Britain. Feet and stone are still often used in height and weight too. But you are right, the UK has formally switched to the metric system. My only problem is with the tonne unit, because tonne/lb produces statistics like 1.48 x 1010lb and similar, which obviously can't be used. I'll follow your formatting and perhaps use tonne/ton for the larger quantities. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 20:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Okay I hope the latest revision is a bit better. I've removed any conversion from tonnes to other units, tonnes are the most popular unit in the UK and I should have realised that before. Still, at least I know what a Megagram is now.. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 20:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, generally my impression is that UK has switched to metric units (so 50km/h instead of 20mi/h), so I thought this topic is related to UK and should use metric units. The formatting should be something like this "... produced a total of 1kg (2.2 pounds) of waste..." OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- What do you mean by add the imperial conversion to the back of the metric unit? The UK does still use the imperial system loosely nowadays by the way; although it's popularity is declining it is still reasonably important. Agreed, megagrams seems terribly confusing (I didn't even know it existed...). MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 17:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)