Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2010

October 2010

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  • Images. Unfortunately I have posted this late. I didn't want to support or oppose because JM and I recently disagreed about some Holocaust images, so it wouldn't have been appropriate for me to review this. But I feel I ought to point out that both images are posted on Flickr by their authors as all rights reversed. [22] [23] Could be they've not been released, or perhaps whoever released them forgot to change the Flickr tag. But it would need to be resolved either way. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 03:42, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Some issues, possibly:
    • The section on the #1 app, drilling fluids, is at least partly plagiarized from the USGS pamphlet. We might track down the contributing editor and check their other contributions.
    • I question the authority of this pamphlet as well. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry says this about cesium formate "The very low toxicity of the cesium cation ... have led to the suggestion to use these solutions as brines in oil..." This USGS pamphlet is the most highly cited source in the article, its backbone one could say and it may not measure up, in part because it is US-centric. Its main virtue may be that it is accessible to editors.
    • I have not checked carefully, but the initial chem section is somewhat misleading "Isolated caesium is extremely reactive" It is in fact robust, even distillable.
    • The safety section is hytrionic and semi-hysterical "Caesium metal is one of the most reactive elements and is highly explosive when it comes in contact with water. The hydrogen gas produced by the reaction is heated by the thermal energy released at the same time, causing ignition and a violent explosion." I just dont think that the common person is ever, ever going to encounter metallic Cs, so it can be construed as misleading to the common reader to emphasize such esoteric behavior.
        • I don't think that the common person will come in contact with caesium salts either. This article is supposed to be encyclopedic, not a handguide about what readers should do when they come in contact with whatever form of the metal they could/might encounter in their average day. Nergaal (talk) 17:58, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will read up more and report later.--Smokefoot (talk) 17:34, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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