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Why is there so much in this article about the Alvin? It has it's own article. 138.88.60.90 03:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blurb For DYK

Did You Know...

..that Aluminaut, the world's first aluminum submarine, helped recover an atomic bomb lost in an accident in 1966?

[edit] Scope

I want to congratulate the original author for a well-researched and well-formatted article. There is, however, too much extraneous information, e.g. about the historicity of the Reynolds headquarters, or the son of the founder. Neither of these have any obvious connection to the submarine and belong in other articles, or not referenced at all. --Dhartung | Talk 03:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, I merged some of the irrelevant history of Reynolds Metals with that article, especially the sources about the headquarters (most of the rest was already there, making it even more redundant here). I simply deleted the section about Alvin's continued work and the section about J. Sargent Reynolds, since they had no relevance here that I could see. I trimmed a few other things as well, and added a submarine category (perhaps not the best, but I saw no better alternative). It's a much tighter article now and you don't get the feeling you're reading something that might be significant but doesn't turn out to be. (We're an encyclopedia, not a magazine -- sidebars are accomplished by wikilinks!). I still feel the bit about the atom bomb search is a bit of a fake-out, because the text in our article basically says that Aluminaut was there, but Alvin did all the work. If that's the case, we should emphasize that she played a support role and leave it at that. --Dhartung | Talk 04:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

Really needs a photo, I want to see what it looked like ¬¬¬¬AndyP