Talk:Leona Woods

Leona Woods has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 17, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 22, 2013.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Leona Woods was the only woman present when the world's first nuclear reactor went critical?

Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on November 10, 2017, and November 10, 2022.

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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 11:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Need for further expansion

I've started this article out but I know that this woman has a number of achievements to her name. I'm hoping that others will help to contribute and expand on this article. (→Netscott) 13:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have expanded the article. I've gone ahead and removed the expand and stub tags. - Jvhertum 22:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looking better and better all of the time. I still think the article is stubbish myself... and would leave a stub or two... but I'm not going to revert about it. Cheers. (→Netscott) 23:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sagaciousphil (talk · contribs) 13:50, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, this looks like one that might be within my (limited) capabilities to review. However, I'll probably get someone else with more GAN review experience to briefly double check/comment once I've had a go at it.

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. Has an appropriate reference section:

B. Citation to reliable sources where necessary:
A small query - I can't access Ware & Braukman other than a tiny snippet view but I found "Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary" (Shearer & Shearer, 1997) p. 239 says: "earned her B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1938 when she was only 19 years old." which backs up the Ware & Braukman. NNDB (ref #1) states Physics?
I presume this was an error. Ware & Braukman say chemistry, as does Leona herself in her book, which I regard as definitive.
Thanks for sorting/clarifying those. SagaciousPhil - Chat 08:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
I was just about to change the spelling of 'skeptical' to 'sceptical' when I noticed another editor had literally just minutes before changed it to 'skeptical'. My own preference is 'sceptical' but I will leave it as is so I'm not 'edit warring!'
I'm not sure... my spell checker is set to Australian English and will change it to "sceptical" if it gets a chance, but perhaps "skeptical" is the American spelling? Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, "skeptical" is the US spelling. See [Wiktionary.org/skeptical] Cyberherbalist (talk) 20:32, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:
Both images are US PD

B. Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
A very interesting article about a fascinating character. SagaciousPhil - Chat 08:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested double-check

After a quick pass, I don't see any issues. (I haven't drilled down into the sources, though.) The only small point I'd mention, which isn't at all relevant for the GA criteria, is that the "cancer deaths" category doesn't appear supported by the article text. Hawkeye, thanks as always for your consistently excellent work on this topic! -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:03, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't noticed that - it was there before I started the expansion. It seems very credible. Years of reading obituaries have accustomed me to mentally substituting "cancer" for "after a long illness", but I don't have an explicit source, and I don't know where the other editor got it from. So I've removed it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Especially for someone who worked that much around radioactive materials, it's easy to believe. Just thought I'd point it out either way. -- Khazar2 (talk) 21:10, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help as always, Khazar2! Now I've just got to work out how to go through all the next steps to finish processing this

SagaciousPhil - Chat 08:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cause of death

There is a source that says she died of "anesthesia-induced stroke". Now, it is possible that she was under anesthesia to treat cancer. One wonders of NNDB is reliable in this case. Abductive (reasoning) 17:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Another editor added the cancer death, and did have a source, but I vaguely remembered this one. I've corrected the article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:50, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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