Talk:1988 Armenian earthquake/GA1

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Reviewer: Secret (talk · contribs) 01:30, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I'll be reviewing this within the next few days. Thanks Secret ^account 01:30, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Reviewing....

• "The cities of Spitak, Leninakan (Gyumri), and Kirovakan (Vanadzor) were greatly affected with exceptionally large losses of life and damaging to devastating effects to buildings and other structures." Remove the word exceptionally as that's a tone/NPOV issue, and damaging/devastating means the same in this content, so just use one of those words and remove the other.

 Done Removed "exceptionally" and damaged Dawnseeker2000 04:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• "A one-off song was produced by a duo of French composers (one with Armenian ties) with the proceeds going to the rebuilding efforts and a studio album was released by the British music industry featuring songs that were donated by mainstream rock bands." What is a "one-off" song, also wikilink Rock Aid Armenia in the lead.

 Done Removed "one-off" and included the link to Rock Aid Armenia, along with a bit of supporting text. I think that when I originally wrote that I didn't want to give too much away in the lead because there's only one sentence in the body on the topic Dawnseeker2000 04:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• "It was reopened in the mid-1990s amid criticism of lack of training, political instability in the Caucasus region, and accusations that the plant was of inadequate design." Can you get the exact year?

I have a feeling that the year may have been available in the text of the source article, but I no longer have access to the HighBeam Research articles that were used heavily in creating this one, so I won't be able to go back and double check on those Dawnseeker2000 04:34, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done Found a source that says it was re-opened in 1995. Étienne Dolet (talk) 08:27, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• roadways and railways also experienced disturbances in several locations." "In several locations" is redundant, remove.

 Done Removed "in several locations" Dawnseeker2000 04:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• "Many case histories pertaining to liquefaction in sandy soil exist, but..." We talking about Russia, or overall? That can also use a citation

The material here summarizes the source at the end of the paragraph, and is a journal article from the American Society of Civil Engineers. I believe they don't specify where because they're looking at all available studies of liquefaction. Here's a portion of the source: "While there is an abundance of case histories involving liquefaction of sands, there have been a very few field observations of liquefaction of gravels and gravelly sands (Liao 1986)." and "There are several noteworthy case histories, as discussed by Harder and Seed (1986) and Evans et al. (1992) in which liquefaction of gravels and gravelly soils have occurred." Dawnseeker2000 04:34, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• Note whether the money is in American or Russian dollars and place the appropriate symbol ($) after each mention of cash for example "was carrying with him 1 million in relief funds."

 Done Étienne Dolet (talk) 08:31, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• "Igor Nesterov, (head of seismology of USSR) said the Leninakan seismic station was destroyed...." needs a citation, tagged as such.

 Done Étienne Dolet (talk) 08:21, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• I presume with the sentences without a citation, the citations is at the end of the paragraph correct? I'll assume good faith with the book sources and the Russian sources, but any information that isn't linked to that particular citation should be sourced.

Comment That seems to be the case Secret. I went through the various accessible sources and found that it is indeed a summary of the aforementioned paragraph. However, I'd appreciate it if Dawnseeker2000 can affirm this as well. Étienne Dolet (talk) 08:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• Images are free of use, properly tagged as public domain mostly through work of the United States government, so no worries there.
• I did some minor copyedits to the article

My main concern is the citations and maybe another copyedit. I'll place this on hold for a week. Thanks Secret ^account 19:37, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok passing Secret ^account 16:07, 4 March 2014 (UTC)