Talk:Forth Bridge/GA2

GA Review
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I'll take this one on. Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 15:23, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Comments
The article is in a very good state and will need little work to achieve GA status.


 * The lead is fully cited, using refs 1..10, of which 3 and 5-10 are used nowhere else. Please move all refs into body of article and ensure that lead summarises article without introducing new claims. Lead only needs reffing if claims are highly contentious, which I doubt applies here.


 * Some paragraphs are uncited, I'll mark these up.


 * The "Popular culture" section is a bit of an indigestible list. I'd suggest merging it with the "Banknotes, coins" section to give a "Representations" section (or similar), arranged in 3 or 4 paragraphs, to cover 1) notes and coins 2) in the media 3) general culture. Trivial items should be dropped.


 * You might wish to move the "Visitor centre plans" and "World Heritage Site status" alongside the "Representations" section, in which case these would form subsections of an "In culture" section.


 * In his 1917 book On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson compares the Forth Bridge (pictured p. 245 in the abridged edition) with the skeleton of an ox (pp. 243–246, with figure of a bison skeleton). As the book is PD-1923 you might like to quote a bit of it, but at least it deserves a mention. Here's a sample: "In a typical cantilever bridge, such as the Forth Bridge (Fig. 106), a certain simplification is introduced. For each pier carries, in this case, its own double-armed cantilever, linked by a short connecting girder to the next, but so jointed to it that no weight is transmitted from one cantilever to another. The bridge in short is cut into separate sections, practically independent of one another... In the horse or the ox, it is obvious that the two piers of the bridge, that is to say the fore-legs and the hind-legs, do not bear (as they do in the Forth Bridge) separate and independent loads, but the whole system forms a continuous structure."

Images
File:Are these "just a few splashes", Mr. Churchill?.jpg appears to be incorrectly licensed on Commons, as it plainly isn't self-published. This needs to be fixed with appropriate licences, or the image removed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:10, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I've sorted it out on Commons. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:12, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Summary
I'm satisfied that with the work done the article is now well up to the required standard and a worthy GA. Congratulations to the editors. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:12, 1 May 2017 (UTC)