Talk:Homi J. Bhabha/GA1

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 16:52, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:52, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

• File:TIFRAC.jpg the license is clearly incorrect as the image is at least 70 years old and not the work of the uploader.
• WP:EARWIG flags a couple of places where the text in the article is taken from other sources without appropriate paraphrasing:
  • The article has "In 1937, with Walter Heitler, he co-authored a paper, "The passage of fast electrons and the theory of cosmic showers" in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, in which they used their theory to describe how primary cosmic rays from outer space interact with the upper atmosphere to produce particles observed at the ground level. " This page has "His classic paper, jointly with W. Heitler, published in 1937 described how primary cosmic rays from space interact with the upper atmosphere to produce particles observed at the ground level".
  • The article has "Bhabha later concluded that observations of the properties of the meson would lead to the straightforward experimental verification of the time dilation phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity." The same webpage has "In 1938 Bhabha was the first to conclude that observations of the properties of such particles would lead to the straightforward experimental verification of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity."
  • The article has "The trustees of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust decided to accept Bhabha's proposal and financial responsibility for starting the Institute in April 1944." The same webpage has "The trustees of Sir Dorab J. Tata Trust decided to accept Bhabha's proposal and financial responsibility for starting the Institute in April 1944."
  • The article has "When Bhabha realised that technology development for the atomic energy programme could no longer be carried out within TIFR he proposed to the government to build a new laboratory entirely devoted to this purpose. For this purpose, 1,200 acres (490 ha) of land was acquired at Trombay from the Bombay Government. Thus, the Atomic Energy Establishment Trombay (AEET) started functioning in 1954." The same webpage has "When Bhabha realised that technology development for the atomic energy programme could no longer be carried out within TIFR he decided to build a new laboratory entirely devoted to this purpose. He managed to acquire 1200 acres of land at Trombay, near Bombay for this purpose. Thus the Atomic Energy Establishment started functioning in 1954."
• I also picked a sentence out of the article to check against the source. FN 52 cites "Twenty years younger than Nehru, Bhabha addressed him as "Dear Bhai", or "Dear Brother", while Nehru addressed Bhabha as "My dear Homi". Indira Gandhi later recalled that her father always found the time to speak to Bhabha, both because, she claimed, Bhabha brought to him urgent matters that required immediate attention, and because conversations with him afforded Nehru "warm moments of sensitivity that other people take for granted in their everyday life", but which are harder to come by in the life of a politician." The source has "The young scientist addressed Nehru as 'Dear Bhai 1 and Nehru addressed Bhabha as ‘My dear Homi’. Years later, Mrs Indira Gandhi would recall how her father always found time to talk to Bhabha no matter how late it was not because Bhabha brought to him urgent matters that required his immediate attention but because such conversations were refreshing, satisfying perhaps an unfulfilled need for intellectual company that his life in politics denied him."

I'm going to stop the review here and fail this nomination because of these problems. I recommend going through the article and checking that the prose is not taken from or incompletely paraphrased any of the sources before renominating. I checked to see if this could be a case where the text was taken from Wikipedia, but the webpage has essentially identical versions on archive.org going back to early 2007. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:30, 22 April 2023 (UTC)