Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Spedding

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:54, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Frank Spedding

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... that Frank Spedding directed the Atomic Energy Commission's Ames Laboratory in Iowa from its founding in 1947 until 1968?

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5x expanded by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:08, 7 June 2015 (UTC).

Review: (New) prose portion expanded fivefold beginning June 6, from 2349 B (391 words) to 12 kB (1981 words); (long enough) article has 12,118 characters of prose; (within policy) article is neutral and cites sources with inline citations. Spot-checks reveal neither close paraphrasing, copyvio, nor plagiarism. There were a few issues with wording and grammar, so I made some minor copyedits to fix them. I did find two small issues that deserve another look by the nominator, as the article is currently a GA candidate: 1) the page numbers seem off, for example the page numbers in Corbett 2001 appear different than the page numbers in the source cited. I'm not sure what the problem is, but maybe you can check. I looked at the sources and the information checks out. 2) A number of sentences can be significantly improved for flow and clarity; two stand out (a. "He intended to study in Germany under James Franck and Francis Simon, but his timing was again bad, for they had fled Germany after Adolf Hitler had become chancellor of Germany in 1933." b. "Spedding went over the details with the chemical engineers there, Henry V. Farr and John R. Ruhoff, on 17 April 1942"), but nothing prevents this DYK from passing. (hook) The hook is about 121 characters, cited inline, accurate, neutral, and interesting. (QPQ) QPQ checks out. This hook is good to go. Viriditas (talk) 05:28, 15 June 2015 (UTC)