Wikipedia:Peer review/Hindenburg (airship)/archive1

Hindenburg (airship)

I'm looking to try to get this article up to featured quality, so I'm very interested in trying to identify any specific areas that it is weak on. --Cyde Weys 03:05, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

A few observations from a quick scan:

• • Very short intro section. Probably doesn't meet WP:INTRO
  • "Most of the crew and passengers survived. Of 36 passengers and 61 crew, 13 passengers and 22 crew died." Under death toll - probably not a neutral statement in the first sentence, and is really confusing and fragmented.
  • Lacks references.

Feel free to raise any queries about my comments. Regards. MyNameIsNotBob 07:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I took a quick look. There is not enough data about the final flight. For eg, the starting point and destination is not mentioned (was it Frankfurt to Lakehurst ?), or the height above the ground when it caught fire (from the description it looks like it was flying very low or was about to land), or the time of the day. Tintin (talk) 09:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

First off, there has been a lot of work on this and it is a good start. To reach FA status it still needs a lot of work though. I agree with all of the above comments. Reread the article and make sure each section and subsection is mentioned in the lead section of two or three paragraphs. There are a lot of sub sub heads - can you organize it so there are more headers and fewer subs? You might even want to break out some of the theories into their own article and summarize for brevity.

The units are a mishmash of metric and english - both should be present, probably with metric first (German airship). You might want to give the cost in more than pounds sterling and give some idea of the modern equivalent cost. There must be more references in the article itself, preferably inline citations. Refer to the proponents of theories by name / source wherever possible and cite their work.

As for the disaster, I agree more description of the last flight and the disaster itself are needed (before talking about the famous Oh the Humanity). Perhaps a table of passengers, crew and ground crew and numbers died, injured and survived would be clearer? Since the article is about the airship, not just the disaster that destroyed it, it would be nice to have more on the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Co., how they decided to build the Hindenburg in the midst of a worldwide great depression, when they started, how long it took to build it, where it was built, etc. Also describe a typical flight across the Atlantic (times etc)? Zeppelins (military and some of Count Z's early ships) had crashed before, just not passenger zeppelins. Keep up the good work. Ruhrfisch 02:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)