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ATP (British Rail)
- ... that British Rail's ATP system was estimated to cost £11 million per life saved, more than the £4 million per life considered good value for money? Source: Harmer, 1995 - [1]
- Comment: Haven't done this before, so please ping if I've messed anything up too much.
Created by Alex Noble (talk). Self-nominated at 17:34, 8 March 2020 (UTC).
- Am looking at this now; review to follow shortly (this evening/tomorrow). I have some familiarity with the subject matter. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 20:43, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Review starting now, but must pause now and continue later today......
- This is a new, non-stub article with in excess of 3kb of prose. (Quite a notable topic; I'm surprised no dedicated article for BR ATP existed, and Main Page exposure may well bring about further expansion and improvements.)
- Refs are formatted correctly and sources are of high quality. I don't have to hand a copy of Gourvish (2002), the only offline source, but I am familiar with the book and its suitability as a source.
- Work started on 8th March, so the nomination is on time.
- The author has no DYK credits so far, so is exempt from QPQ reviewing requirements.
- Prose quality is fine.
- Minor nitpicks at this stage: apart from a few copyedits (hyphens, mostly), I would suggest a few more explanations of technical terms: perhaps spell out SPAD as well as linking, and mention that ACEC and GEC-GS are companies rather than e.g. technical standards (maybe link the second one to Alstom#GEC-Alsthom; not sure if the ?Canadian company ACEC has a WP article).
- I'm happy with the hook in terms of interest, catchiness and accuracy. As per Hamer (1995), the supporting source: while BR and Railtrack initially estimated £14m per life saved, the Health and Safety Commission's review revised this to £11m per life saved, so it is appropriate to use the lower figure in the hook and article.
- Broadly speaking, this looks ready for DYK, but later this evening (I'm doing this on my lunchbreak) I'll do full copyvio/close paraphrasing checking in the online sources and will confirm if OK. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 13:51, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
No issues noted in subsequent checks; verified and ready to go. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:20, 11 March 2020 (UTC)