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GA Review

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Reviewer: JPxG (talk · contribs) 23:10, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]


I'll do my best! jp×g 23:10, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For this one I will use the same scale as I do for all my reviews.

  • Green checkmarkY Checked and verified to be good, no issue.
  • Gray check markYg Not an applicable concern.
  • Red X symbolN This thing needs to be fixed or clarified.
  • Gray X symbolNg This thing has been fixed or clarified.
  • exclamation mark  This thing should be fixed, but I won't hold up a "pass" for it.
  • Blue question mark? Huh?

Preliminary notes

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Copyvio

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Stability / POV

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  • Green checkmarkY Article has been around for a few years, and nothing seems to have happened on it besides harmonious collaboration. No real POV stance is taken, let alone an undue one.

Media

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  • Green checkmarkY All media is public-domain and clearly illustrates topics related to the article subject.

Focus / scope / coverage / completeness

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  • Green checkmarkY Born, lived, designed, built, died. Not much more to talk about, is there?
  • exclamation mark  It feels like the membership of secret societies and death could be expanded on a bit more.

Prose / MoS

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  • exclamation mark  Lead is pretty short, I think it ought to mention what some of his inventions were and who used them.


  • Green checkmarkY Well-written and comprehensible.
  • Red X symbolN §Societies and §Death are both single-sentence sections. They should either be combined into a §Personal life or expanded.


  • exclamation mark  "devices for grinding wheat, regulating springs in railway cars,[8] machinery for processing felted cloth, machinery for brewing liquors, papermaking machinery, machinery that produced dinnerware, and improvements in machinery technology for the smelting of glass, metal, and porcelain. He also made improvements to machinery that made pigments for ink, gas lighting, and waterproofing fabrics": this could really stand to be broken out into individual sentences for each, if sources exist that can do so.

Ref check

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  • Green checkmarkY Ref 1 (Grace's Guide): Credible source, says everything that's cited to it. An interesting thing from this source that would be nice to have in the article: At one of the meetings of the IMechE in 1850, in discussions about the enormous problem of railway axle failures, Hodge made the very interesting suggestion that "To arrive at any true results as to the structure of iron it would be necessary to call in the aid of the microscope, to examine the fibrous and crystalline structure." Microscope analysis of the crystal structure of metals is a big-ass deal (and continues to be so today)!
  • exclamation mark  Ref 2 (Popular Science Monthly): Reliable source, checks out; it seems to me like the relevant passage is on page 490 though.


  • Green checkmarkY Ref 3 (Deseret Evening News): Reliable source, supports what's cited to it.
  • Gray check markYg Ref 4 (Lyons 1976, 71): Reliable source; could not verify this source using the Internet, but it isn't load-bearing (its only use is to support a statement referenced to other citations as well).
  • Green checkmarkY Ref 5 (Kane 1997, 272): Reliable source, and supports the claim cited to it. It's on page 273, not 272, so editing to be correct.
  • Green checkmarkY Ref 6 (King 2001, 4-5): Reliable source, and supports the claims cited to it.
  • Green checkmarkY Ref 7 (Santa Cruz Sentinel): Reliable source, and supports the claims cited to it.
  • Green checkmarkY Ref 8 (Proceedings): Two inventions had been blended into one, but I fixed this. Reliable source which now supports the claims being cited to it.
  • Green checkmarkY Ref 9 (Hodge 1840): Checks out.
  • Gray check markYg Ref 10 (White 1979, 280): Could not get this page from Google Books, but it's a reliable source and I will AGF.
  • Gray check markYg Ref 11 (White 1979, 491): Could not get this page from Google Books, but it's a reliable source and I will AGF.
  • Gray check markYg Ref 12 (White 1979, 281): Could not get this page from Google Books, but it's a reliable source and I will AGF.
  • Green checkmarkY Ref 13 (Hodge 1849): Checks out.

Conclusion

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@Doug Coldwell: A good article, a pleasure to read, and informative about a subject few would be capable of writing in this much detail about. Would be thrilled to pass after the repair of the two sections mentioned above. jp×g 20:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see this has been fixed. Based! passing. jp×g 20:57, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]