Talk:Richmond, Indiana, facility fire/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Tails Wx (talk · contribs) 16:39, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: PCN02WPS (talk · contribs) 22:14, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

I'll review this. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:14, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Lead and infobox

• "prompting response from emergency managements" → "emergency managements" strikes me as a little strangely-worded, perhaps "emergency management agencies"?

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• what is the relevance of the state police responding to a fire?

The state police is typically a more notable agency than local agencies, although they're all notable. I just went ahead and included the state police responding to it because of that. ~ Tails Wx 21:15, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "in Preble County, Ohio after" → need comma after "Ohio" per MOS:GEOCOMMA

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "The fire was contained on April 16, six days after the fire started" → repetitive, replace second "the fire" with "it"

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "In the aftermath of the fire, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Indiana Department of Environmental Management evaluated hazards from the facility fire" → "fire" repeated again, this time I think it makes more sense to nix the first mention

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Background

• Remove comma in first sentence

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• Mention and link Richmond in the first sentence when you're talking about the facility

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "facility in 2022, after Smith" → remove comma

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Fire

• "by Richmond, Indiana mayor" → I don't think you need to specify Indiana since it's been mentioned previously; if you decide to keep it, it needs a comma after it

 Went ahead and removed "Indiana"! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "became further problematic" → awkward wording; maybe "became more problematic" or "became more dangerous"?

 Went with "problematic", ~ Tails Wx 21:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "with some bystanders moving close to it" → makes it sound like people got closer because of the explosions
• "Debris from the fire was found as far as New Paris, Ohio and" → need comma after "Ohio"

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "Two firefighters were injured; including one" → comma instead of semicolon

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Aftermath

• Overall, this section suffers a bit from WP:PROSELINE as four of five paragraphs begin "On/In [date]..."

Re-worded the beginning of two of them; if more needs to be re-worded I'm happy to do so! ~ Tails Wx 21:48, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• Note EPA and IDEM abbreviations on first mention in this section and just use those rather than full names in the rest of the section

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:15, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "from the facility fire several hours" → you can just say "from the fire"; don't need to specify "facility fire" at this point

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "Higher levels of metals" → higher than normal? higher than healthy levels?

"Elevated" according to sources; therefore placed "higher than normal". ~ Tails Wx 21:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "regarding the building after they had obtained the building" → reword to eliminate repetition

 Done ~ Tails Wx 21:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "removing debris from the site of the facility fire" → "of the fire", as above

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• Any reason why metric units (metric tonnes/kg) are used instead of imperial units?

Nah, just went with lb/kg. ~ Tails Wx 21:48, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "from the facility fire site" → "from the site" since you've already described where they took the materials from

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "at the facility fire site" → ditto

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

• "the City of Richmond" → this phrase is used several times throughout the article but always with "city" in lowercase; this should be consistent

 Done! ~ Tails Wx 21:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

That's what I've got. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:31, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

PCN02WPS, all your comments have been addressed, thanks for taking up this review! :) ~ Tails Wx 21:48, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Just a couple more things I spotted:

• The units were updated from tonnes to lbs but the numbers were not converted, so the figures there are not correct (used to say 6,000 tonnes but now says 6,000 pounds, which are very different)
• More minor wording issue, but "Aftermath" talks about the EPA collecting samples one month after the fire but later says that the EPA began to collect samples seven months after the fire, so maybe "began" could be replaced with another word?
• "In the aftermath of it" --> "in its aftermath"

PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 04:03, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

@PCN02WPS: I fixed two of the three concerns outlined above; though the second point doesn’t make sense to me. The EPA did take samples one month after the fire, but didn’t collect any during the cleanup process seven months after. It does say the hazardous waste was transferred to a EPA-mandated landfill but didn’t sample during that process. ~ Tails Wx 04:22, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Gotcha, I think I misinterpreted that when I first read it. Thanks for clarifying! PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:18, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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