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Reviewer: Seabuckthorn (talk · contribs) 19:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator: Hawkeye7 (talk)

Hi! My review for this article will be here shortly. --Seabuckthorn  19:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]


1: Well-written

Check for WP:LEAD:

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      • Major Point 1: Early life "" (not a concise summary of the corresponding section in the body)
      • Major Point 2: Early career "His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence concept.[1]" (not a concise summary of the corresponding section in the body)
      • Major Point 3: World War II "He was the Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge called the Trinity explosion a "foul and awesome display" and remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches."[2]" (summarised well in the lead)
      • Major Point 4: Postwar "This marked the beginning of his dedication to ending the testing of nuclear weapons and to efforts to maintain civilian control of future developments in that field." (summarised well in the lead)
    • Check for Relative emphasis:  Done
      • Major Point 1: Early life "" (the lead does not give due weight as is given in the body)
      • Major Point 2: Early career "His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence concept.[1]" (the lead does not give due weight as is given in the body)
      • Major Point 3: World War II "He was the Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge called the Trinity explosion a "foul and awesome display" and remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches."[2]" (the lead gives due weight as is given in the body)
      • Major Point 4: Postwar "This marked the beginning of his dedication to ending the testing of nuclear weapons and to efforts to maintain civilian control of future developments in that field." (the lead gives due weight as is given in the body)
    • Check for Opening paragraph (MOS:BEGIN):  Done
      • Check for First sentence (WP:LEADSENTENCE):  Done
        • "Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (July 27, 1904 – July 14, 1996) was an American physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research."
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2: Verifiable with no original research

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Check for WP:RS:  Done

Cross-checked with the other FAs: Edmund Herring, Neil Hamilton Fairley, Landing at Nadzab, Albert Kesselring, James Whiteside McCay, Harry Chauvel, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Leslie Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kenneth Walker, Thomas Blamey, Douglas MacArthur, Frank Berryman, James B. Conant, Iven Mackay, Walter Krueger, Vernon Sturdee, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr

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3: Broad in its coverage

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Cross-checked with the other FAs: Edmund Herring, Neil Hamilton Fairley, Landing at Nadzab, Albert Kesselring, James Whiteside McCay, Harry Chauvel, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Leslie Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kenneth Walker, Thomas Blamey, Douglas MacArthur, Frank Berryman, James B. Conant, Iven Mackay, Walter Krueger, Vernon Sturdee, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr

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4: Neutral

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5: Stable: No edit wars, etc: Yes

6: Images  Done (PD)

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6: Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:  Done

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I'm glad to see your work here. I do have some insights based on the above checklist that I think will improve the article:

  • I think the lead can be improved in order to provide an accessible overview and to give relative emphasis.
  • "Bainbridge called the Trinity explosion a "foul and awesome display" and remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches."[2]" (Can you break it into simpler sentences to make it easy to follow?)
  • "After the explosion of the first atomic bomb went off without such drama, in what he later described as ""a foul and awesome display",[2] he turned to Oppenheimer and said, "now we are all sons of bitches."" (Can you break it into simpler sentences to make it easy to follow?)
  • "remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches."[2]" ("Now" or "now"?)
  • "When his Guggenheim fellowship expired in September 1934, he return to the United States, where he accepted an associate professorship at Harvard University."
  • "There was little interest in their work only because research was being carried out elsewhere.[18]"
  • "He initially led E-2, the instrumentation group, which developed x-ray instrumentation for examining explosions." (I think it should be "X-ray")
  • "The had a son, Martin Keeler, and two daughters, Joan and Margaret Tomkins."

Besides that, I think the article looks excellent. Hawkeye7, please feel free to strike out any recommendation you think will not help in improving the article. All the best, --Seabuckthorn  23:12, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting the article to GA status. --Seabuckthorn  23:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]