Template:Did you know nominations/Kitty O'Brien Joyner
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:41, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
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Kitty O'Brien Joyner[edit]
Kitty O'Brien Joyner analyzing the operation of a wind turbine at NACA Langley in 1952
- ... that Kitty O'Brien Joyner (pictured) was the first woman engineer at NASA?
Improved to Good Article status by Rhododendrites (talk). Self-nominated at 22:35, 22 April 2019 (UTC).
Article is in date as a GA, meets all policies as one would expect. The article and sources however state that rather than being the first woman engineer at NASA, she was actually the first at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which did not become NASA until 1958. By which point there might have been, and presumably were, other woman engineers who all became part of NASA at the same time. So I think the hook is a bit misleading. Perhaps change it to make it explicit that it was NACA, the forerunner of NASA? Spokoyni (talk) 10:03, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that Kitty O'Brien Joyner (pictured) was the first woman engineer at NASA's predecessor, NACA?
- @Spokoyni: Thanks. A good point. If it were simply a rename, I wouldn't think it a big deal, but given it's more accurate to say one was replaced by/succeeded by the other maybe ALT1 above? Feel free to tweak or propose an alternative. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:34, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
