Talk:Timeline of the Manhattan Project

message: _ _ Australia was also part of the project as Mark Oliphant was an australian.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jm1234567890 (talk • contribs) 20:54, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
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message: In the article for Bohemian grove It says:
The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting, apart from Ernest Lawrence and military officials, included the president of Harvard and representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric. Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees.
Is this relevant to the list? Hulahulahulahula (talk) 17:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  bohemian grove meeting? 

message: Edward teller was part of the project  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.108.10 (talk) 14:11, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The project 

message: I saw the MP FA, so I know the history is well researched (kudos) and I can see the comments here are doing a great job of fixing typos and the like.  I'm concerned that if you really step back and look at the article though, it is pretty unfriendly to our reader.  It's this huge list with no color formatting or table or the like to tell different types of events or the like.  How would Groves feel about getting this in a report?   
First of all where's the timeline!  I see a chronology, a list of dates, but not something someone would call a timeline.  Here, look at a Google image search for "timeline".  
Second, one of the things that a timeline would really be good for is telling when different diffusion technologies came on line or the like, but that info is just not accessible to the reader in present article's format.  Look at this simple timeline of the Manhattan Project for something that helps me understand what happened when.
So recommendations:
Baby step option:  Give me a simple L-R graphical timeline immediately below your lead.  Remember how nice the centered map of locations is in the FA?  Let's emulate that by analogy, but now let's have a time axis.  Either do it as part of the lead like the map in this wolf list, or as the first double equals section, called "Overview".  Then rename the listy list "Detailed chronology".  This, along with a little more engaging lead, will at least give enough sugar so that casual readers will be interested in the meat of the article...or so that if they blow off reading the dates list, they at least feel that they sort of engaged with it.
Nuclear option:  Rewrite the whole thing (entire article) into a graphical or tabular format.  You can actually USE the medium here to your advantage by having a scroll-shaped (get it) diagram that is screen wide and goes down several "page downs".  I'm thinking of something like the Heinlein future history diagram (and he did that with 30s technology at a table, nothing fancy).  But you could have sections for "organizational", "separation", "bomb design and testing", "external" (the war events, elections).  It would basically be that simple MP diagram above but turned on its side...and then you put all the content into a structure, not a laundry list...so that the reader can really learn from it quickly.  You don't have to get super fancy graphically, like Tufte with the army coming in and out of Russia (but you could...for example showing volumes of Pu and U production).  Just Cartesian like a table down the page with sections.
Lead friendliness:  Please take a fresh look at the lead and think about how to make it more engaging and relevant to the timeline as opposed to just the project.  It's a good place to give us background, but try to emphasize phases of the project or (if you end up doing a sort of diagram, the different themes/categories (separation, design, etc.).  There's actually some of that in there, but then there is low value stuff like the District versus Project caveat.
Useless infobox:  Get rid of the low value-add infobox.
TCO (talk) 01:55, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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