Wikipedia:Peer review/Internal combustion engine/archive1

Internal combustion engine

I nominated this to begin work on more real-life properties. Any advice on how to improve it? - A Link to the Past (talk) 06:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Needs many more references.--Yannick 05:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The structure should be rethought. The mechanics and operations sections are probably more relevant and belong ahead of the history section. And I'm not sure that the applications subsection belongs in the history section. The "Principles of Operation" heading is confusing as currently place and should be removed. Each of the items below it deserves a very brief definition, rather than being a pure list. I suggest the "Classification" heading should be retitled "Variations". Section titles should avoid repeating the title of the article, for example the "engine pollution" section should just be called "pollution". And why is "pollution" part of "Classification"?--Yannick 05:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Didn't the earliest applications have to do with mine ventilation and drainage?--Yannick 05:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've never heard of a proposal for a hydrogen fuelled ICE. Hydrogen fuel usually means fuel cells. That material (under "Fuel and oxidizer types") along with the battery powered electric motors (in the applications section) and other stuff should be removed to a section about competing alternatives. After all this is supposed to be an article about ICE's not about car engines.--Yannick 05:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
More balanced coverage would be beneficial. This article is mostly written about cars, and more material about aircraft engines, stationary engines, tool engines, etc. would be beneficial. But since the ICE is best known for propelling cars, a link to the automobile belongs right in the introduction.--Yannick 05:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There is great potential to expand the pollution section. "Moderately high" is meaningless. Quantities of pollutants, number of engines in operation, estimates of death toll, etc., would be much more valuable.--Yannick 05:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The ICE is a big topic that will eventually require daughter articles to be spun off. It may be helpful to keep that in mind while reorganizing it.--Yannick 05:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Try and standardise the image widths a bit if poss, and get references. --PopUpPirate 23:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]