Wikipedia:Peer review/Isambard Kingdom Brunel/archive1

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Legendary engineer, I've started to 'reference' everything with the aim of getting it featured soon, comments very much appreciated before I back-reference the lot and submit for FAC. Thanks. --PopUpPirate 00:40, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * On its way to FA, but needs some work in a few places.
 * Certain concepts or issues need to be explained more fully:
 * The Thames Tunnel: who commissioned it, how has it been used (this is in the picture caption but should be in the article text).
 * Did he marry? Have children?  If so, talk about it; if not, say he did not.
 * A little more on the his bridges wouldn't hurt; right now two of them are just mentioned. Years of construction would be good as well.
 * Explain exactly how the atmospheric railway worked. I assume the train was drawn by means of a sliding stopper of some sort in the vacuum pipe, but explanation would be very useful.
 * The "Legacy" section reads like a list. Smoothing that out would be nice.
 * The panoramic picture of the two bridges is just confusing. It would be nice to have a good picture of one of those bridges, but in its current state, it's so distorted and confusing as to be useless.
 * At several points you make judgements on his work, of the "greatest" or "significant" sort; this will draw fire on FAC; instead, just say "X says it is a significant" etc.
 * Saved this for last because its the biggest. Footnotes, footnotes, footnotes!  It sounds from your blurb above like you're starting to add them, but I just wanted to drive the point home: for FAC, do not leave yourself open to easy criticism; ideally, every judgement or little known fact should be specifically footnoted, there should be maybe one footnote per section indicating what source is the primary basis for that section.
 * Good work so far; keep it up! RobthTalk 01:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)