Talk:Fritz Strassmann/GA1

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Nominator: Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) 20:15, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 10:24, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• This is a well-written history and I therefore have little to remark on in this review.

• Why is the subject named as "Strassmann" with double s in most of the article, while 'Internal report' and 'Further reading' follow German Wikipedia in naming him "Straßmann" with scharfes s? Perhaps it would be best to give both spellings at the top of the article, and then to use just one spelling throughout.

  Y I have standardised on "Strassmann", but Commons uses ""Straßmann". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The "This setup" image needs to say what the equipment is for, presumably irradiating uranium with neutrons. It would be helpful to mention (in text or caption) what the neutron source was.

  A radon-beryllium neutron source was used. I wrote about it is the Discovery of nuclear fission article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• From 1939 to 1946 working at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute - reads like German. Please rephrase.

  Y Re-phrased. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The memorial image caption should name the memorial's location.

  Y Added that it was at the Hahn-Meitner Building. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The reports were confiscated - please give the date.

  Y In 1945. Added. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• We can drop the "Professor".

  Y Dropped. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• He met Maria Heckter Strassmann - well, she wasn't Strassman at that moment. Best just call her Heckter at this second instance.

  Y Changed. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I've done a small amount of copy-editing.

• The lead image is fair use with a valid NFUR.

• The other images are on Commons and plausibly licensed.

• The citations are mainly in last, first style (Doe, John C.) but there are some in first last style (John C. Doe). It would be best to use last, first throughout, most easily by using the cite journal / cite book template consistently.

  Y Used the cite templates for consistency. I note here that consistent citations is not required at GA, but only at the FA level. (Wikipedia:Content assessment) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Titles of journal articles should be in roman not italics; again, this would best be handled by using the cite journal template which applies the formatting automatically.

  Y Changed as suggested. Note that at GA level,articles only have to comply with Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Compliance with other aspects of the Manual of Style or its subpages is not required for good articles. (Wikipedia:Good article criteria) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Papers (and books) in German should have the parameter |language=de, which creates "(in German)" in the citation. Where a translation is not already present, an English translation should be provided using the parameter |trans-title=.

• Y Added. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Some famous scientists are named as authors but not wikilinked in the citations. For example O. R. Frisch is actually Otto Robert Frisch.

  Y I think I got them all. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• [12] is a dead link; this should be marked with the parameter |url-status=dead so that the archive URL is used automatically instead.

  Y Changed as suggested. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• [17] Bernstein needs a page reference and ISBN.

  Y Deleted. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• 'Further reading' should per MoS be after the list of references, here called "Notes". The authors should be in last, first format. The works should be marked as in German (as in the 'Papers' item above).

  Y Moved. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The external link in [20] is incorrectly formatted, returning a "bad character" error. The database search just needs the number, 19136.

  Y Corrected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Spot-checks: [4], [12], [20] ok.

• The technical content here is excellent and fully-cited, but the article needs a little tidying-up as noted above.