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A news item involving June Bacon-Bercey was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 8 January 2020.

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Sourcing

I realise this relies heavily on the SF Chronicle article, but it's close to the only RS one I found that isn't stuck behind a pay gate. I removed what I couldn't source, but I think her pioneering role in the field establishes notability. Travellingcari (talk) 02:59, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delay

Why the delay in announcing her death?

Just curious. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 05:19, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also why put her death in the main page's "recent deaths" list when it was 6 months ago? Just because it was announced super late doesn't mean it's "recent".SirZPthundergod9001 (talk) 06:32, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Updates on degrees, 1st trained meteorologist on TV

Several sources have stated that June Bacon-Bercey has a bachelors degree from Univ. of Kansas and masters from UCLA. I found this statement in a Physics Today article where her daughter clarifies that she does not have these degrees: Bacon-Bercey received a bachelor’s in meteorology from UCLA, not from the University of Kansas as previously reported, and she was born in 1928.... We had also incorrectly reported that she received a master’s degree from UCLA. Thanks to Dail St. Claire, Bacon-Bercey’s daughter, who confirmed those facts...

In addition, there needs to be clarity in the text about being the first African American female meteorologist on television - she was the first trained meteorologist on television, see this NYT article cited on the page: Other black women, among them Dianne White Clatto and Trudy Haynes, had delivered weather reports on television almost a decade before Ms. Bacon-Bercey did. But she was the first black woman to do so who was also a trained meteorologist, according to various sources, including the weather forecasting and news company AccuWeather, which profiled her in 2019, and Physics Today, a magazine published by the American Institute of Physics.

Drlauraguertin (talk) 18:50, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]