Wikipedia:Peer review/Project Apollo/archive1

Project Apollo

Looking for general advice to get article to a featured status. --GW_Simulations_{Talk | Contribs | E-mail} 13:34, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My comments:
- The introduction should be expanded to somewhere between 2-4 paragraphs (see WP:LEAD).
- Headings should generally avoid repeating the article title (for example, the heading Reasons for Apollo should be changed to simply Reasons)
- Miscellaneous information should be incorporated into the rest of the article and removed; trivia sections generally are looked down upon.
- Inline citations are needed. Generally, these are done in the form of WP:FOOTNOTEs.
- Please alphabetize the categories and interwiki links.
- As of now, the article is too list-heavy. I would suggest that at least some of the lists be prosified (converted to paragraph form) if possible.
Thanks, AndyZ _t 13:58, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- - I have changed headings and moved the list of capsule locations to the page about the Apollo spacecraft. I will implement the rest later. In reference to the comment on category order, wouldn't chronological order be better? --GW_Simulations_{Talk | Contribs | E-mail} 18:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just a few comments:

The "Reasons" section seems out of context. Only the first, brief paragraph discusses the reason behind the program. The other two are post-program reflections rather than initial motivation. Perhaps that section should be merged with the others, or else renamed?
"equiptment".
I agree that there are a lot of lists. The launch lists could be converted into nicely-formatted tables.
There are some odd gaps between the paragraphs that don't really add anything and make the page look unfinished. They should be eliminated.
George Low should be linked.
Perhaps you could explain somewhere why there were no launches named "Apollo 2" or "Apollo 3"?
The long paragraph in the "Manned missions" needs to be broken into 2-3 shorter paragraphs to make it easier to read.
At the end could you include some comments about where the capsules are on display? Or are being stored? Or were destroyed?

I hope these comments were somewhat helpful. Thanks! — RJH 16:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reasons section merged with background and end of program sections, and I've had a look at the spacing. I am researching Apollo 2, and as for capsule locations, this is handled in the Apollo Spacecraft article, as it refers to the spacecraft as opposed to the whole program. Thanks, GW_Simulations_{Talk | Contribs | E-mail} 21:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed the lists to tables. --GW_Simulations_{Talk | Contribs | E-mail} 22:41, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It looks nice, you might try something with the cancelled mission section, even just a few words as to why they were canceled, instead of mearely their names. That might be better than their names, in fact. Tuvas 23:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've put another table in for it. What do you think? --GW_Simulations_{Talk | Contribs | E-mail} 20:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]