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Good articleActinide has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
July 26, 2011Good article nomineeListed
September 29, 2014Good topic candidatePromoted
February 15, 2024Good topic removal candidateDemoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 29, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that some actinides glow because of their radioactivity (example pictured)?
Current status: Good article

GA concerns

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I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

  • The lead is quite long, and should probably be trimmed. There are also citations in the lead, which is not necessary per WP:LEADCITE: is all of this information in the body of the article?
  • There are uncited passages throughout the article.

Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should it go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:18, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

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Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · WatchWatch article reassessment pageMost recent review
Result pending

The article contains uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. The lead is quite long and should probably be reduced. Z1720 (talk) 23:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Synthesis vs Discovery

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The 1938 fission discovery experiment definitely created Neptunium and Plutonium, both from direct deuteron absorption and U238 absorbing neutrons from the fission. Of course they didn't discover and characterize them at that time, but to say that the elements were first synthesized years later is incorrect. Octaazacubane (talk) 16:21, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]