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Good articleLittle Boy has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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My understanding is that on science-related articles the metric unit should come first in the conversion. John (talk) 19:30, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

You are correct. The question then becomes whether this is a science-related article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:37, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'd say it is. Nuclear fission was the very bleeding edge of science at the time. Nobel Prizes were awarded for it, and a new element was created for it. The folks who designed them were scientists. They even called it a "physics package". What do you reckon? John (talk) 21:58, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1944 was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of nuclear fission. I currently have the article on Hahn up for review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Otto Hahn/archive1. Comments welcome. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:59, 26 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

AI upscaled images look bad, unprofessional, and are inaccurate

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The new images, like this one, look terrible. The source they are from is an "AI upscale" that has clearly hallucinated details — look at the text, including the "L11" writing on the bomb. They should be removed and replaced with images that, whatever their "lower" quality, do not have the unnatural smoothing, poor text rendering, and incorrect faces (the guy at the left is Norman Ramsey and looks nothing like him because the "AI" algorithm has just smeared a lot of pixels and made guesses based on nothing). These are deeply ugly at best, misleading at worst, and should be tagged as AI generated/edited at a minimum. It is not as if the article does not have plenty of images as it is. NuclearSecrets (talk) 23:52, 13 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I agree that it was correct to remove these images, under MOS:AIUPSCALE. Note that they were added by User:NotLessOrEqual evading their 2024 block as User:Colimarl. They'd taken a lot of public domain military videos from YouTube, cropped them to remove any watermarks or timecodes that the channels might have included, then asked an AI to upscale them. I'll flag these for deletion on Commons. Belbury (talk) 11:12, 9 March 2026 (UTC)Reply