Talk:Donald Davies/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Whizz40 (talk · contribs) 09:59, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

This will be my first review on a computer scientist, I'm looking forward to it! I am going to start the review on the sources, since a number of issues have caught my eye, and the GA toolbox has led me there.

Whizz40 (talk · contribs) I'll read though the sources section again when the surface issues have been addressed, and then start the prose review. If the prose needs as much work as the references, I may need to fail this. On a cursory glance, I am worried about the huge amount of quotations which doesn't comply with MOS:QUOTATIONS, and the large variance of section lengths. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Prose clock

Awards and honours

In 2007, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame: This has already been said It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Books

Needs to follow MOS:WORKS.

Sources clock

[1], [13], [27], [54], [55] are broken. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[64]: The URL should be changed to [1] so the http redirect doesn't need to be accessed. A "dead link" template has also been added to this, probably by some bot. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Always check the article on "External links" (linked in the "GA toolbox" on this page to avoid these problems in the future. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[60]: Needs page number It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

There are several nearly bare URLs which are very susceptible to link rot (several have broken already). It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[3] and [8] reference the same bulletin but have different "journal" fields. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[23] and [76] same source need to be merged. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[66]: Two citations in one, needs to be split. The second one already has its own reference anyways ([75]). It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[25, 26, 40, 43, 57]: URLs? It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[11]: It's weird that all the Harris refs point to a citation also in the reflist template. I would recommend putting the citation they all reference outside of the reflist template as in other GAs and FAs It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[61, 31]: Same reference, merge It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[70, 74]: Same reference, merge It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

There is loads of publishers and titles that could be wikilinked. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Reliability clock

Reliability seems mostly alright on preliminary check, just a few queries:

[1], [72] (same source, need to be merged): What makes the source reliable? It looks like an old group blog, with little if any editorial oversight. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[21]: Can't use Davies' words as a source for his own impact. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[48]: Reliability unclear, would recommend citing the patents themselves with the cite patent template It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

[56]: What makes this reliable? It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Copyvio clock

35.9% on Earwig. Has several too close paraphrases with this and this

Always check the article on copyvio detector (linked in the "GA toolbox" on this page) to avoid these problems in the future. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)