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Barely a month old, but it's already in pretty good shape. You've put some serious work into this, Footlessmouse. I'm happy to look this over in detail. 〈
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Chapter 4 convers [sic] the...fix typo.
still largely focuses on Descartes, Newton, Fermat, Hooke, and Huygens, among others.- Give the full name of the scientist (not just last name) and wikilink their page on the first mention of them in a section. It's OK to use just the last name on second mention within a section, though.
Thomas Preston (scientist)- reformat to hide disambiguation
Platonic and Aristotelian philosophies- add inline wikilinks
old quantum theory- wikilink.
Overview of Volume I, Reception of the first volume- Simplify section titles per MOS:NOBACKREF. The rest are similar.
book established Whittaker as a leading historian of science, he was also widely recognized as a preeminent mathematicianTry to make this more substantial: the combination of "leading", "widely recognized", and "preeminent" is getting into MOS:PUFF territory.
Citing Max Born (1956),[43] Gerald Holton (1960,[44] 1964,[45] 1968[46]), Charles Scribner (1964),[47] Stanley Goldberg (1967,[48] 1969[49]), Elie Zahar (1973),[50] Tetu Hirosige (1976),[51] Kenneth F. Schaffner (1976),[52] and Arthur I. Miller (1981).- No need for dates in the text, WP:HARV style refs are depreciated.
set forth the relativity theory of Poincaré and Lorentz with some amplifications, and which attracted much attention",[42] and he credited Einstein only with being the first to publish the correct relativistic formulas for stellar aberration and the Doppler effect.is the same phrasing used at [1]. Should be rephrased. The rest seems fine.
the namesake of the Sparrow criterion in spectroscopyA parenthetical aside seems out of scope. Leaving a redlink is OK until somebody writes an article about him.
Note Thank you for taking the time to review this! I have made changes to fix all of these problems, except for the one that begins "move", did you mean to put something else there? I ended up deleting a couple of problematic statements that did not seem particularly necessary for the article and so won't be missed. I added a portrait of Whittaker and a photo of Einstein. The readable prose size is 48 kB, so it is in between the categories of "Length alone does not justify division" and "May need to be divided (likelihood goes up with size)". So I wasn't sure. If more content were to be added, I would say it definitely should split. The books have enough notability that each is separately notable, but I am not sure if anything else needs to be said about it. I am not sure either way, there are good arguments for both sides on this one. The main argument to keep it together is that the first volume of second edition is basically same as first edition and many of the references talk about both. I am open to suggestions, it is certainly a future possibility. Please let me know if you there are any more issues. Thanks again for taking the time to review the article!
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[Removed duplicate of nomination for clarity]
Hi all, if any anyone has any ideas on the section titles I would be grateful. MOS says that at each level they have to be concise, but they also have to be unique to the page. They more or less have to conform to page title guidelines. I have found that balance somewhat difficult for this page (currently using parentheses to disambiguate sections). The obvious fix is to split the article up, but I still have a few strong reservations on that. Thanks! Footlessmouse ( talk) 09:09, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I have opened a discussion on WikiProject Physics to ask what the correct target of wave mechanics should be, as there doesn't appear to be a clear answer. Thanks! Footlessmouse ( talk) 22:48, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
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Barely a month old, but it's already in pretty good shape. You've put some serious work into this, Footlessmouse. I'm happy to look this over in detail. 〈
Forbes72 |
Talk 〉 01:45, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
Chapter 4 convers [sic] the...fix typo.
still largely focuses on Descartes, Newton, Fermat, Hooke, and Huygens, among others.- Give the full name of the scientist (not just last name) and wikilink their page on the first mention of them in a section. It's OK to use just the last name on second mention within a section, though.
Thomas Preston (scientist)- reformat to hide disambiguation
Platonic and Aristotelian philosophies- add inline wikilinks
old quantum theory- wikilink.
Overview of Volume I, Reception of the first volume- Simplify section titles per MOS:NOBACKREF. The rest are similar.
book established Whittaker as a leading historian of science, he was also widely recognized as a preeminent mathematicianTry to make this more substantial: the combination of "leading", "widely recognized", and "preeminent" is getting into MOS:PUFF territory.
Citing Max Born (1956),[43] Gerald Holton (1960,[44] 1964,[45] 1968[46]), Charles Scribner (1964),[47] Stanley Goldberg (1967,[48] 1969[49]), Elie Zahar (1973),[50] Tetu Hirosige (1976),[51] Kenneth F. Schaffner (1976),[52] and Arthur I. Miller (1981).- No need for dates in the text, WP:HARV style refs are depreciated.
set forth the relativity theory of Poincaré and Lorentz with some amplifications, and which attracted much attention",[42] and he credited Einstein only with being the first to publish the correct relativistic formulas for stellar aberration and the Doppler effect.is the same phrasing used at [1]. Should be rephrased. The rest seems fine.
the namesake of the Sparrow criterion in spectroscopyA parenthetical aside seems out of scope. Leaving a redlink is OK until somebody writes an article about him.
Note Thank you for taking the time to review this! I have made changes to fix all of these problems, except for the one that begins "move", did you mean to put something else there? I ended up deleting a couple of problematic statements that did not seem particularly necessary for the article and so won't be missed. I added a portrait of Whittaker and a photo of Einstein. The readable prose size is 48 kB, so it is in between the categories of "Length alone does not justify division" and "May need to be divided (likelihood goes up with size)". So I wasn't sure. If more content were to be added, I would say it definitely should split. The books have enough notability that each is separately notable, but I am not sure if anything else needs to be said about it. I am not sure either way, there are good arguments for both sides on this one. The main argument to keep it together is that the first volume of second edition is basically same as first edition and many of the references talk about both. I am open to suggestions, it is certainly a future possibility. Please let me know if you there are any more issues. Thanks again for taking the time to review the article!
Footlessmouse (
talk) 04:37, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
[Removed duplicate of nomination for clarity]
Hi all, if any anyone has any ideas on the section titles I would be grateful. MOS says that at each level they have to be concise, but they also have to be unique to the page. They more or less have to conform to page title guidelines. I have found that balance somewhat difficult for this page (currently using parentheses to disambiguate sections). The obvious fix is to split the article up, but I still have a few strong reservations on that. Thanks! Footlessmouse ( talk) 09:09, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I have opened a discussion on WikiProject Physics to ask what the correct target of wave mechanics should be, as there doesn't appear to be a clear answer. Thanks! Footlessmouse ( talk) 22:48, 11 December 2020 (UTC)