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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 09:05, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please reply to each item with a brief textual comment like "Done" so I can see how we're progressing.

Comments

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  • Some of the authors are cited in "John R. Doe" format, others in "Doe, John R." I suggest we format all of the refs in "Doe, John R." for consistency and readability.
  • The section "Comparison with fossil-fuel turbines" is misnamed as the alternatives named include nuclear. The discussion of birds killed by cats and buildings is also nothing to do with fossil-fuel turbines. Some renaming or restructuring is needed.
    • (Done) Knowledgegatherer23 (Say Hello) 13:50, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
      • Knowledgegatherer23 (Not Done) Um, I wasn't asking you to suppress the (correct and appropriate) mention of nuclear, which remains a low-carbon alternative, no matter how unpopular; it's also fully dispatchable, which wind isn't. Please put it back, and as this thread suggested, rename the section to match the contents.
  • In "Demolition and recycling", the advertisement for Casper, Wyoming is both uncited and out of place - no recycling is involved, and the result is long-lived waste in a landfill, not exactly something Wikipedia should be advocating.

Sources

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  • "However, many of the elements in the blade can be extracted and repurposed." Really? How? At what cost and with what waste products? Who says so, and with what evidence? Who disagrees? Wikipedia should not be accepting commercial arguments like this, especially not in Wikipedia's voice. An energy company is not a neutral and objective source: in fact, we should not be treating energy companies like www.midamericanenergy.com (101) as Reliable Sources at all, so we should treat anything they say as advertising (i.e. unusable) except for bare facts about themselves (they are based in Iowa...).
  • I think we had better check all the sources for reliability. The following appear (prima facie) to be unsuitable for Wikipedia: 1, 3, 6, 86, 101, 108, 125. Some are borderline: 99, American Wind Energy Association, is the manufacturers' club so its "fact-checking" may not be entirely neutral, for example. 108 "Clean Energy Ideas" looks like a partisan website, and while it sounds good there is no evidence it's independent and reliable.
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