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Wiki Education assignment: Physics and Society[edit]
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 February 2024 and 10 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jack1231344 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Sschriber.
— Assignment last updated by Tmzyang (talk) 00:10, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The video captioned "Newsreel of Earhart flying the Atlantic Ocean in 1932" is actually about her trip from Hawaii to California. Also, the video itself seems to partially looped. 35.137.220.224 (talk) 04:47, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Someone already fixed the caption. It seems the confusion arose because the video file itself was misnamed in Commons. I've fixed the issue, so hopefully that prevents further confusion. - ZLEAT\C 15:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi all, I've now finished my copy-edit. I've marked passages in various sections with [citation needed] where I thought a citation was required. I've also marked one subsection, "World flight in 1937" --> "Flight between Lae and Howland Island" with {{Refimprove}} because some important text, mostly about RDF and radio communications, there is uncited. I also substantially rearranged the sections "Legacy" and "In Popular Culture", and retitled a couple of earlier subsections.
I think some other paragraphs could be moved into a "Personal life" section, particularly that about Earhart's marriage and move to California, to avoid mixing her flying career with her personal life. I also considered merging the transatlantic flight and the round-the-world flight into the section "Aviation career and marriage" but there's so much material there I didn't want to swamp it. And I wasn't sure about listifying the new subsection "Legacy" --> "Tributes and memorials" because some of the text there is extensive. Maybe you or another editor could find a better way of divide up and present the text for our readers.
Oh, and I swapped the footnotes system from {{refn}} to {{efn}} because the latter works with all formats of citations; I found problems when trying to move a lengthy quotation cited with a bare ref out of "References" into "Notes". The only difference if that the footnotes are now listed by letter not number. Moving to a single citation style would be ideal and make life easier for future editors but that's a lot of work so it's not a request, just a suggestion for later on. Anyway, it's been an honor to work on this article. Cheers and good luck with it, Baffle☿gab 06:54, 17 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]
I will re-organise the article to separate personal life from aviation career - as is common practise in most other biography articles. Desertarun (talk) 13:54, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It won't be possible for me to do this after all. It seems she didn't really have any personal life away from aviation, her husband was her publicist and fully involved in her aviation. And I can't see any content which is distinctly non-aviation or formerly private and now public. Desertarun (talk) 21:56, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 January 2022 and 6 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Keelimancino (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Livingstoneag, Mia Ragland, Kanagawar, JennaLankford, Eavinson3.
Done NotAGenious (talk) 04:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)