Template:Did you know nominations/Jaguar (American rocket)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:22, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
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Jaguar (American rocket)
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Jaguar in front of B-57 launch aircraft
... that the Jaguar sounding rocket (pictured) was designed to be launched from a B-57 bomber in the same way a nuclear bomb would be?
Source: "the plan was to launch the Jaguar...during a near-vertical-climb maneuver, as developed in the toss-bombing technique" [1]
- Reviewed: Erie Basin Marina
Created by The Bushranger (talk). Self-nominated at 02:06, 10 December 2017 (UTC).
- New enough (created same day as nomination) and just long enough. Sufficient citations, no close paraphrasing suspected. Photo is US govt public domain, so no problem there. I'm not sure if it's clear enough to be used in DYK at the vertical height it is - will leave that to promoter. QPQ review done.
- I don't think the hook will work as is - the word "nuclear" is not mentioned in the article, and the B-57 article does say it could carry nuclear bombs but doesn't mention toss bombing. I don't think the connection is explicit enough for a hook. I recommend dropping the nuclear bit:
ALT1: ... that the Jaguar sounding rocket (pictured) was designed to be launched from a B-57 bomber with the toss bombing maneuver?
MB 03:14, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hm, fair. I think this might be better wording though - what do you think, @MB:? - The Bushranger One ping only 04:16, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that the Jaguar sounding rocket (pictured) was designed to be launched using a toss bombing maneuver from a B-57 bomber?
- I don't see much difference between ALT1 and ALT2 so if you prefer ALT2 then we'll go with that. Another thing I didn't mention before is the back-to-back wikilinks. The MOS says to avoid when possible in an article. It's probably not as important here since "Jaguar" is bold and "sounding rocket" isn't. But this will take care of that:
- ALT2a" ... that the Jaguar multi-stage sounding rocket (pictured) was designed to be launched using a toss bombing maneuver from a B-57 bomber?
Good to go with ALT2 or 2a. MB 04:46, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
