Talk:Minotaur V

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"American"

Maybe better replace "American" with "US" as that would be much clearer. Using the attribute of the entire continent for just a single country may be common in US every day language, but is still misleading in my opinion, especially for international readers. It would be even better to rephrase the sentence in such a way that it says " ... build by US manufacturer XYZ ... " but that would bring the nationalistic attribute to the end of the sentence and maybe you don't want that. Sorry, but I believe that national pride is not one of the major guidelines for creating a Wikipedia article. I didn't make the change myself in order to avoid a conflict with the original author. JB --84.186.178.101 (talk) 12:09, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would tend to agree with you. Heck, something that covers this sort of thing is probably in WP:MOS elsewhere in Wikipedia policyville. So I recommend you look at the norms, then BE BOLD, and edit the article. After all, on Wikipedia, anyone can edit. N2e (talk) 19:15, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Except that this isn't a "US every day language" thing, it is the common usage of the English language in general. The English language does not recognize "America" as a continent, rather North America and South America are two continents. Because of this the usage of "America" and "American" to refer to the US and its nationals in modern (post-1776) contexts is NOT ambiguous in English. --Khajidha (talk) 19:35, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

September 6/7

Relatively new to editing Wikipedia pages, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. The page currently says that first flight was on September 7th, but it was actually September 6th at 11:27 PM EST. Is the convention to state all dates in UTC? Should it be noted on the page that the date is UTC? Or is it better to just have September6? Wickedsweetcake (talk) 02:03, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, not a dumb question at all. And, WELCOME to Wikipedia!

The reason is that the launch occurred at 3 in the morning UTC time, even though it was 11:27 pm local time where the launch occurred. The Wikipedia Spaceflight project has a standard practice of using UTC time on all spaceflight-related articles, since once the launch vehicle is off the ground, it is passing many local time zones per hour, and orbital positions are all referenced to a common time zone.

But it is okay to make that clear in the article if you want to. On Wikipedia, anyone can edit. I would imagine that something like "... at xyz time UTC on September 7, 2013 (11:27 p.m. local time at the launch site on September 6)" would be okay. Cheers. N2e (talk) 03:16, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]