Talk:Lightning rod/GA1

GA Sweeps review

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of 31 May 2008, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.

• There are three {{fact}} in this article, that have been in place for more than a year.

• The prose needs work to reach the standard expected of a GA. For instance: "Early structures made of wood and stone tended to be short ...". Does that really mean short, or does it mean low?

• "In Europe the lightning rod was invented by ... in the United States [it] was was invented by ...". Presumably this is trying to suggest that the lightning rod was invented independently by Benjamin Franklin and Václav Prokop Diviš, so why doesn't it say that? Why is there no citation to back up that claim?

• Splitting the History section between Europe and the United States makes the history very disjointed. Was the experience of lightning so very different in Europe and the US?

• "Balls of solid glass occasionally were used in a method purported to prevent lightning strikes to ships. It is worth noting here not because it worked, which it didn't, but because it reveals a lot about pre-scientific thought." Reads like original research. Who says that it's worth noting?

• Many sections/subsections without citations. For instance, Lightning conductors and grounding precautions, Electric power system lightning protection, Lightning protection of mast radiators, Aircraft protectors and Watercraft protectors.

• "Transferring electric charge from the Earth to the sky is done by ...". Capitalised Earth refers to the planet, not to the ground.

• Many simple English words are unnecessarily wikilinked, for instance tower, controversy, structure, salt and philanthropy.

• "Should a lightning rod have a point?" It is not the purpose of an encyclopedia article to ask questions, but to answer them.

• "While the electrical resistance of the lightning conductor between the air terminal and the Earth is concerning, the inductive reactance of the conductor could be more important." Concerning to who? Who says that that inductive reactance of the conductor could be more important?

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 01:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)