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... that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the solar eclipse of September 10, 1923 from Santa Catalina Island but instead saw only clouds? Source: "SUN'S FROLIC PRIVATE". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 1923-09-11. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-10-15 – via Newspapers.com.
Overall: @JPxG: Converted Redirect. Interesting hook. Have a look at the high Earwig score. Might be copied from Archives New Zealand? Lightburst (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC) Lightburst (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
That specific phrasing looks to be shared boilerplate between a lot of eclipse articles. Given the fact it's a Flickr post, it's almost certainly copied from Wikipedia rather than the other way around (I don't see any indication poking around the ANZ site that they wrote it). Vaticidalprophet 19:54, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
@Lightburst: That string in particular is shared by nearly all eclipse articles; an en-wp search for the stringA solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth gives about 500 verbatim results. The oldest of them is Solar eclipse of March 29, 2006, which in 2015 used Template:Total solar eclipse summary, which -- looks like it was deleted -- but when it got substed in April 2015 it said the same thing it does now, meaning that either the Flickr upload from October 16 either copied straight from it, or that great minds thought alike :^) jp×g 21:53, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the editor checks. Happy to approve. Lightburst (talk) 22:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
@JPxG: Converted Redirect. Interesting hook. Have a look at the high Earwig score. Might be copied from Archives New Zealand? Lightburst (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC) Lightburst (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
That specific phrasing looks to be shared boilerplate between a lot of eclipse articles. Given the fact it's a Flickr post, it's almost certainly copied from Wikipedia rather than the other way around (I don't see any indication poking around the ANZ site that they wrote it). Vaticidalprophet 19:54, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the editor checks. Happy to approve. Lightburst (talk) 22:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)