Talk:Ionization cone

Ionization cone (final version) received a peer review by Wikipedia editors, which on 9 January 2023 was archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

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Expanding to Start-Class

This topic is really interesting! I saw it on the stub-class list and found a lot of sources to help this article's case for start-class. Appreciate any help/finding research in expanding it 😀😁 Quaemenelimbus (🗨 here) ^_^ 21:34, 28 October 2022 (UTC) Just added enough content to bring it up a class I think. Still appreciate any help though. Quaemenelimbus (🗨 here) ^_^ 22:05, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to do a pass over your article. Cited references look solid at first glance. Deltasct (talk) 17:18, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pass completed for now, but more work remains to be done.

The main issue remaining in my view is the section on the mechanics of formation. I would actually advocate for removal, as these paragraphs are highly technical and unlikely to add information for the average reader, while the technically-minded reader is likely to get more out of a read-through of the remaining cited sources. Alternatively, the paragraphs should be tightened in their formulation to integrate them with the lead, the accuracy checked against the references, and the links checked for relevance.
A number of terms linked to incorrect articles, such as to X-ray spectroscopy, which is used in materials analysis in laboratories, distinct from Astronomical spectroscopy, or to Radio wave, which is technically correct, but the better article is the Astronomical radio source linked earlier in the same paragraph.
The listing of the four analysis methods was similarly affected, linking either to articles that are a sub-topic of the general spectroscopy topic, but not separate analysis methods, or again terrestrially used spectroscopy methods. With the expanded lead incorporating more information on the spectroscopic analysis, I felt this separate mention of the methods was no longer needed.
I've added two "citation needed" tags, and yes, one of them is to my own additions. If not resolved by you or others in the meantime, I will look at the already included references to see if they can be used for these as well or search for other references.
I have not done a deep read-through of the sources to confirm cited facts and numbers.

Deltasct (talk) 20:37, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]