Template:Did you know nominations/Explorer II
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 15:49, 1 May 2013 (UTC).
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Explorer II
[edit]- ... that Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson set a new altitude record on November 11, 1935 by ascending to 72,395 feet (22,066 m) on the helium balloon Explorer II?
Created by Praemonitus (talk). Self nominated at 14:52, 21 April 2013 (UTC).
- Article new from redirect, >8000 characters
- Cited inline to sources that all appear reliable
- Images with appropriate licenses
- Hook is brief enough, and verified
- Issues/Suggestions
- You aren't consistent in whether you italicize Explorer II. Which should it be?
- Since the subject has strong US ties, should imperial units precede metric, ie 72,395 ft (22,066 m) within the article?
- Chris857 (talk) 18:33, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you for the review.
- I've set the vehicle name to italics in both the article title and body. I wasn't sure about the references, so I left those as per the sources.
- It's a science-related article so I used SI units. Is the convention to allow nation units to take precedence in cases like this?
- Praemonitus (talk) 18:52, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
- Actually, I think you're right about the units, as WP:MOSUNIT says that science articles use SI, and that non-science article then use national ties to determine unit usage. I think the units are okay as they are. Chris857 (talk) 19:04, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
- Good to know. Thank you. Praemonitus (talk) 19:28, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
- Actually, I think you're right about the units, as WP:MOSUNIT says that science articles use SI, and that non-science article then use national ties to determine unit usage. I think the units are okay as they are. Chris857 (talk) 19:04, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
- After a spotcheck of various parts of the article, I don't see any significant close paraphrasing and the sources verify the article.
- Thank you for the review.
This passes AGF on a couple of offline sources. Chris857 (talk) 02:54, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
