Talk:Atmosphere of Uranus/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sandvich18 (talk · contribs) 13:20, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article looks great, reads well, and everything is sourced. It seems that the last time it saw major additions was in 2011, though, so it's possible there has been more research done since then and maybe some updates could be implemented.

I have several minor concerns:

"They generally confirmed that the atmosphere was made of mainly hydrogen and helium [...]" - there's no mention of helium before that sentence outside of the lead. When was helium first detected so that Voyager 2 could confirm its existence? It needs to be clarified.
"The temperature falls from about 320 K at the base of the troposphere at −300 km to 53 K at 50 km. The temperature at the cold upper boundary of the troposphere (the tropopause) actually varies in the range between 49 and 57 K depending on planetary latitude [...]" - 53 K in the first sentence, 49-57K in the second. They need to be merged and the temperature clarified.
Second and third section of "Troposphere" - "As was said above [...]" - maybe the first sentence in which that information was brought up could be shortened? "Although Voyager 2 directly detected methane clouds at 1.2–1.3 bar via a radio occultation experiment [...]" - there's no need to include the "altitude" if the same fact is talked about more in-depth later. I think "at 1.2–1.3 bar via a radio occultation experiment" could be removed. Done -KAP03(^{Talk • Contributions • Email}) 15:32, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"(see below)" has two different formats - one appears before the end of the sentence and the reference, the second - after both.
"The hazes, like their parent hydrocarbons, are distributed unevenly across Uranus; at the solstice of 1986 they were concentrated near the sunlit pole, making it dark in ultraviolet light." - I believe the reader should be reminded why the year 1986 was brought up, otherwise the date seems random. Maybe change it into "at the solstice of 1986, when Voyager 2 passes by the planet, they were concentrated [...]" or something similar. Done -KAP03(^{Talk • Contributions • Email}) 16:19, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sandvich18 (talk) 13:20, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

- @Sandvich18: I have made some modifications to the article. By the way what does the (see below) point mean? -KAP03(^{Talk • Contributions • Email}) 21:51, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I hope that I've done what the reviewer asked about. --Hameltion (talk, contribs) 12:51, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Since the reviewer apparently doesn't have any further issues (still editing but never said anything here), I'll close this review and pass the article; on a skim I didn't see any issues myself. Wizardman 15:24, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]