Template:Did you know nominations/Plymocoupe
- The following discussion 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 PFHLai (talk) 20:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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Plymocoupe
[edit]- ... that in 1936, following the crash-landing of his Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe, nicknamed Sea-Aska, Russel Owen sent a telegram to his sponsors writing: "Sea-Aska on her asska in Alaska"?
Created/expanded by Dr.K. (talk). Self nominated at 07:15, 29 December 2013 (UTC).
Article is new enough and long enough. Thoroughly referenced and well illustrated. Well-structured. Informative and interesting. It is fascinating to learn that the plane borrowed design accents from the Plymouth car. The article supports claims like this made in the lead with good examples in the body of the article.
The writing is clear, precise and concise. Can I suggest you make the "specifications" section into two columns so it doesn't take up so much screen space.
The hook is referenced twice, the second cannot be verified but one should be enough for DYK purposes.
Could you check reference #16 which says "Sea-ska" whereas #12 says "Seaaska". I presume #16 is a typographical error. ( or have I misunderstood?)
Whiteghost.ink (talk) 11:09, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Whitegost. Thank you very much for your kind comments. I am also very pleased to see that a fellow editor finds this subject as fascinating as I do. :) I added yet another reference for the DYK hook which is online and easily verifiable. By the way, ref [16] supporting the DYK hook is also verifiable because when you click on it Google books responds with "1 page matching The airplane had been named SEA ASKA. When Owens wired his backers of the flight's termination his telegram read, "Sea- ska on her Asska in Alaska." in this book" and then shows page 247. The actual name of the plane was "SE-AS-KA" as shown in this picture at the Seattle Museum of History and Industry. The transcription of the name "SE-AS-KA" on references [15] and [16] is phonetic and not orthographic. References [17] and [18] (Benjaminson and Sport Aviation) which I added today to the hook provide the correct spelling of the plane's code name "SE-AS-KA" and spell the rest of the hook the same way: "Se-As-Ka on her 'aska' in Alaska".". The specs table as far as I can see in related airplane articles is normally formatted in one column but I realise the specs are long so it may have to be modified. I'll have to find the syntax to do this in that case. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 16:53, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
- I have now arranged the specs in a 2-column format per your suggestion. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 17:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)