Talk:William Jenkins Wilcox Jr.

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... that William Jenkins Wilcox Jr. was given a Citizen Archivist award at a symposium titled "Secret City in the Tennessee Hills: From Dogpatch to Nuclear Power"?

Source: "At the September 2012 National Archives of Atlanta symposium titled¨”Secret City in the Tennessee Hills: From Dogpatch to Nuclear Power,” Bill received a Citizen Archivist award."[1]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mitsubishi G6M

Created by Hawkeye7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 443 past nominations.

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:53, 29 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - ?

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hello Hawkeye7, happy to review this nomination. The article was created on March 27, 2025. It has a readable prose size of 3521 characters. All passages in the body of the article are sourced. The article does not use promotional or overly negative language. The hook is cited and interesting. QPQ was done.

WP:EARWIG shows potential copyvios with https://oakridgetoday.com/2013/09/05/william-jenkins-wilcox-jr/ . Some of the detections are unproblematic, like the use of standard job titles. Others are borderline cases, like He spearheaded the effort to collect oral histories on the Manhattan Project, which are kept in the Oak Ridge Public Library. in our article vs He headed the effort to collect oral histories on the Manhattan Project, which are housed at the Oak Ridge Public Library. in the source. I think it concerns primarily the paragraphs starting with "After the war, he...", "Wilxcox had a heart attack...", and "In retirement, Wilcox became..". To be on the safe side, it might be best to reformulate them to make sure that the word choice and structure of the texts are not too similar.

I have tweaked the wording in a few places to be on the safe side. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A few other observations

he never saw the calutrons there until after the war do we need to explain "calutron"? As I understand it, they are devices used to enrich uranium, but better double check.
That is correct. Added a few words of explanation. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wilxcox replace with "Wilcox"
Corrected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
He was a successively a research remove the first "a"
Deleted. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC) Phlsph7 (talk) 12:07, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]