Talk:Einstein–Szilard letter/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Khanate General (talk · contribs) 09:12, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

• Will review in a few days.--Khanate General (talk) 09:12, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

General

• No disambiguation links.
• No neutrality issues.
• Copyright tags for the pictures look fine.
• No missing in-line citations.
• No original research.
• Article is stable.
• Could you post a picture of Einstein and Szilárd in the article?
  • N The only one I have is this one, a still from the 1946 newsreel linked in the external links below. However, it was taken in the United States, and is therefore still subject to copyright. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
    • That's a shame, it's a wonderful picture. I added a {{Multiple image}} to the article.--Khanate General (talk) 08:13, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
• "Nuclear weapons and the United States" should be linked somewhere.
  • Y Added to the "See also" section. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Origin

• "tended to capture them" Link to Neutron capture.
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "in Berlin" Link to Berlin.
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

The Letter

• "Peconic Bay, on Long Island" Remove the comma between Peconic Bay and "on Long Island".
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "Szilárd dictated a letter in German to the Belgian Ambassador to the United States to Wigner, who wrote it down, and Einstein signed it" Too many "to"s.
  • Y Broke the sentence up. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "He told Szilárd that he would deliver a letter, but suggested that it come from someone more prestigious." "A" should be "the" if its only referring to the Einstein–Szilárd letter and not letters in general
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Delivery

• "Sachs delayed until October so that the President would give the letter due attention" Delayed what? The appointment?
  • Y Yes. Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "Urged action and urgency" is repetitive.
  • Y Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "the Army Lieutenant Colonel Keith F. Adamson and the Navy Commander Gilbert C. Hoover" Lieutenant Colonel and Commander are military titles, so remove the "the", like "talked to General Custer" versus "talked to the General Custer".
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "Sachs asked the White House" Link to White House.
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "Bureau of Standards" Link to Bureau of Standards.
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Results

• "Roosevelt decided that the letter required action, and authorized the creation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium" Remove the comma between "required action" and "authorized".
  • N No, the comma is fine here. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
    • The full sentence sounds awkward with both the commas for the conjunction and the parenthetical element, so I've broken up the sentence into two separate ones. I also corrected a missing "was" in "The meeting also attended by Fred L. Mohler from the Bureau of Standards".--Khanate General (talk) 08:13, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
• "but was willing to authorise $6,000 for the purchase" The article has ties to American history, so authorise should be in American English
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "The Advisory Committee on Uranium was the beginning of the US government's effort" Effort to do what? Build a bomb?
  • Y Yes. Re-worded. . Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "taken over by the Army" Link to United States Army.
  • Y Linked to United States Army Corps of Engineers. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "because considered him to be a security risk" Missing a pronoun between "because" and "considered".
  • Y Added pronoun. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
• "Manhattan Project" should be linked again, the only other link is in the lead.
  • Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

The article just needs some more copy editing. Good work.--Khanate General (talk) 13:11, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

The article passes as a good article.--Khanate General (talk) 09:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)